The Land of Oakland

Feb 20, 2009 at 9:22 PM
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On Wednesday Andrew and I tooled around in Oakland, which I hadn't been to in YEARS. I needed to go there for job-hunting reasons... meaning that I've reached the point of needing a job so bad I'd be willing to work in Oakland, yikes! Anyway, we walked by Lake Merritt and spotted Fairyland, which I used to visit quite frequently as a child. One year I went there for their Halloween Jack-O-Lantern Jamboree, which was a kind of trick-or-treating alternative in a controlled environment. Anyway, I was dressed as a pumpkin, my costume stuffed with balloons to make me suitably rotund. Everything was going fine until I got stuck in the train doorway! I can't remember if I was just shoved through, or if some of my balloons had to be popped to get me in, but it was quite the scene.

The land of my youth

Across the street from the lake is the new Catholic cathedral, which is very impressive looking inside:

Jesus

Doesn't the ceiling kinda look like it's made from origami?

...even if parts of it are a little, um, suggestive looking.... just sayin'!
After the cathedral we wandered over to the Kaiser building to look for the rumored rooftop garden.

Who would have thought the parking garage at Kaiser would have a garden on its roof! Pretty cool.