A Preview of Grandchildren?

Lance and Mary, our landlords, have grandchildren visiting, and they went out on Kakwik with Brian while Judy was working.  They had a great time "driving the boat" and cooking out on the grill on the back of the boat - also pulling up shrimp and the unexpected octopus!  They'll be going back to Texas soon with lots of stories of Alaska - I bet they'll go to see the beaver family that we've been visiting on Ship Creek and they're off to a cabin north of here for a few days now.

We decided that Alaska is a great place for your grandparents to live and be able to come and visit, but we may be pretty old by the time we have any grandchildren who can do that since none are in the picture yet!   And Brian decided it must be pretty tiring, judging from the day he had and the energy THEY had!

No pictures of this, but we rode our bikes to both of my offices to time how long it would take the other night, and we may ride there this morning as a commute to try it out.  It's a short commute, about 25-30 minutes and about 20 coming home - more downhill.  The question is, what kind of shape do you arrive in to look presentable for a workday and how much (crap!) do you have to carry?!  And of course, today it seems to be rainy since we wanted to start today! Well, commuting is commuting - one doesn't pick the weather!