Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Well, I woke up at 4:45am this morning got dressed and helped Keela get the babies ready for an airport adventure. I was one of those randomly selected hand wipe down flyers that gets screened by FSA. That was the third or fourth time in my life that I went through that at the airport and wish that I the same success with the lottery and McDonald's Money Monopoly. My morning and afternoon consisted of three plane rides and an 45 minutes drive from the rental car place to my hotel. For some reason, the airport in Oakland does not have their rental car services at the airport, you have to get on a airport shuttle bus and take a 10 minute shuttle ride to the rental car center. After a four airport tour today, I was not in driving mode. My airport trip started at Columbus, MS to Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA to Oakland, CA. I enjoyed the Atlanta, GA to Los Angeles, CA Delta plane ride because I got to watch some fairly recent movies like Creed and The Martian. The Los Angeles and Oakland airports are much smaller than I originally thought, but still much bigger than GTR in Columbus, MS. As I was flying over Los Angeles, I saw the Big Bear mountain scenery and the drainage canals that were filmed in Terminator 2: Judgement day and the Amazon Original Series Bosch. So back to the rental car experience, I got a 2016 black Volkswagen Jetta. The car is a bit small for me and I had some much trouble trying to adjust the seat and mirrors. Thank you Jesus that I did not have an accident and am knocking on some wood as I type so that it remains that way! The traffic from Oakland to my hotel was tight and longer than it needed to be from my standpoint.
I finally got to my hotel in Pleasanton, CA, which is the Four Points by Sheraton, and it has only two stories and no elevator. With that being the option, I requested a first floor room, which has an outdoor patio to a little fountain pond and swimming pool. I dined across the street at the Black Bear Diner, and it had a woodsy feel to it with wooden chairs that log cabins resemble. The menu was a newspaper with all of the important news of 1969 on the front and back, and the actual menu options were in the middle sections. I had some good ole Pepsi and Chicken Parmesan to eat. After dinner, I drove around and found the Zoho Cooperation headquarters so that I knew where to go in the morning. As I kept driving, I saw several company headquarters such as Hewlett Packard, Xerox, Veeva, Boeing, Oracle, and many others. I found a huge Regal I-Max theater and went and watch Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. It was not playing the I-Max version, so I will try to see the Jungle Book before I leave because it is the only movie playing in I-MAX 3D. I have never seen a movie in I-MAX. Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice was not a very good movie to see. The story was rushed and Superman died. Spoiler Alert! After the movie, I went back to the hotel shaved, showered, and went to sleep.
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