Oakland

 On August 31st we were kicked out of our apartment as the summer sales program was over and the furniture rental company wanted their furniture back. We stayed until the last day because we were going to an Oakland A's games that evening so we weren't quite ready to head back to Oregon. We finished up our packing and cleaning and headed to Oakland for the baseball game. Our tickets had been accidentally sent to another Clark employee from a different branch but Max had spoken with him on the phone and we had plans to meet an hour before the game, at the stadium to get our tickets. Within the hour before the game we called him several times and waited for awhile with no luck. We were frustrated but also happy to spend the rest of the night wandering Target and eating Panda express. We stayed with our friend, Kelly Reynolds who lives about 45 minutes from the stadium. She's a good friends from BYU and we hadn't seen her in awhile. She was happy to meet Charlie and Charlie was happy to meet her dogs, Toby and Enzo. We stayed up for a bit and caught up with her before going to bed. 

The next morning we were planning to spend the day at the beach. We received a call from the guy that supposedly had our tickets. He said the had the tickets and the game was for that night.( a day later than we were told)  He was camping so he wasn't able to use his phone. So it was an annoying misunderstanding but all turned out well. Charlie ended up taking an incredibly long morning nap so we didn't have time to go all the way to the beach before the baseball game so we ended up going to a lake about 7 miles from the stadium. (My poor baby has lived in 2 west coast states and still not been to the beach, well, I guess he has been to the ocean in Washington but it was kind of in a bay and he was asleep the whole time, if we are being completely accurate...holy run-on-sentence...)  Point is, we went to a lake so Charlie could experience Sand. He loved it, the water, the ducks, his sand filled diaper...

He was obsessed with Max's nipples...hahaha

We spent a couple hours at the lake then cleaned up and headed for the game. I'll be honest I'm not too into baseball. I didn't even know there was a team called the Oakland A's until this summer but it was still an experience. Boxed seats are the way to go when watching baseball. It was a lot warmer and there was free food. I don't really have much more to say about that...it was an experience that we can now say we had.

The next morning we loaded up the car and went home.

Here we are in our "just-waking-up glory"

We took it nice and slow and just enjoyed the journey as opposed to trying to get there by a certain time. I guess that's the only way to road trip with a baby if you want to keep your sanity. Charlie did really well and we made it home before midnight so we were happy.