410 & Oakland

Oakland

Ok so for those of you who don't know some friends and I recently made a road trip to the Bay Area. The purpose of the trip was to go to the Monday Night Football opener between the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers. We are cheap and decided that driving would save us a lot of money. So Sunday morning we left SLC headed for Pleasonton. It was a pretty long drive but it really didn't seem that bad. We kicked it in Pleasonton Sunday night. Monday we drove to San Fran and went to Pier 39 and the Fisherman's Warf. It was really pretty cool. We took a tour on a submarine, went on a few ships and stuff like that. Then Monday afternoon we headed back to the hotel so we could ride the BART to the stadium. It was really cool to see all the people wearing their Raider gear. Our seats were awesome. We were on the third row behind the A's dugout. To bad the game totally sucked. Oakland got worked 27 - 0. It was the Raiders first home shutout since 1981 overall though it was well worth it and now I can say I've been there. Tuesday morning we cut out pretty early because I had already skipped class on Monday and Tuesday and had to be back in Rexburg by Wednesday. We finally rolled back into SLC at 8 Tuesday night and then after a very brief pitstop I got back in the car and drove back to Blackfoot. I finally got to my parents place at around midnight and stayed the night there then drove back to Rexburg the next morning. The drive down there wasn't to bad but the drive back seemed really really long. For more details on the road trip see my Nevada post (unless you are from Nevada or you like Nevada)