Warriors vs. Blazers and a Trip to the Nike Employee Store - Portland, Oregon

Last month, my husband Phil flew to Portland with his friends for a weekend trip. I asked him to take some photos and do a few guest posts for me. Here's the first.

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With a family hookup at the Nike store in Portland, I was able to visit the Nike Employee Store and everything I got was 50% off along with no sales tax.  Here are a few pair of shoes that I got for Ngoc and myself.  Not pictured are the clothes that I bought for us as well as Colin's few pair of shoes.

The total damage after purchasing everything was a bit over 1k.  It was not easy to come back with all the shoes and boxes.  I had to break down the boxes and put the shoes in individual bags.

The whole point of the trip was to travel to another city with friends and watch a Golden State Warriors game in someone else's house.  It's an awesome feeling to rep your team, especially when they're the champs.

My friends and I got into Portland early and randomly walking downtown, we noticed a crowd.  It turns out that the Golden State Warriors were staying at a nearby Hotel.  A few of us stood there for about 20-30 minutes to catch a glimpse of the Warrior players slowly exiting the Hotel.  Here's a photo of Andre Iguodala.  As far as I know, he was the only player to sign any autographs and he only signed two.

Here is a picture of the guys walking towards the Moda Center.

Here is picture from our seats, which was at the very top.  Can't complain about $35 tickets.  I was lucky enough to buy the tickets before they doubled in price.  There were a lot of Warrior fans in the crowd and in fact, a lot of people I met on the trip flew in from the Bay Area just to watch the Warriors like us.  It's hard to see, but there was a lot of blue and gold in the crowd.  I would say at least 30% of the crowd was Warrior fans.  Warriors won and everyone won free Jamba Juice,

What a good night.....

Private Box Seats at the Oakland A's Game - Oakland

Phil and I were very lucky ducks to have gotten tickets from my company for the Oakland A's vs. New York Yankees game on Memorial Day. Off we headed to the new Overstock.com Coliseum (sounds lame, no? but at least it starts with an O)

SURPRISE! The tickets were box suite tickets. woo hoo! I look squirrely in this picture? You know...like a squirrel.

Inside, we were greeted with luxury.

Our menu for the day

Popcorn, of course. I wonder if you can request to have a different team's parchment paper for your popcorn.

One of many sliders

One of many hot dogs. I put too much sauerkraut.

We ordered 2 pizzas later too. One cheese and one pepperoni. Food quality was just standard stadium stuff but the box experience was the highlight of the day.

Fridge stocked with Aquafina and Bud Light. Later we ordered ginger ale and Pepsi.

Cookie that Phil really enjoyed but I thought was too hard.

Reppin the Oakland A's

I'm also reppin the green and yellow. I could go to a Green Bay Packers game like this too.

 HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

 

 This may be Derek Jeter up to bat, I'm not sure.

We look like we're in a movie theater. Well the A's lost, le boo. At least I got to see Derek Jeter play. Now if only to run into Minka Kelly... I still had a good time though.

A video tour of the suite, if you want to see me saying basically all the things pictured above. The video gets cut off because the server entered the room but you still get a good gist of the suite.

My First Basketball Game - Warriors vs. Clippers 2010

I'm glad the home team won for my first basketball spectator experience. It's almost as if they knew they had to win it for me. It's like they just knew...

Oracle Arena. Preferred parking. yay! I don't think I've ever seen him this happy to go somewhere with me. He's just so excited he's about to see men in sleeveless shirts play with balls.

Whoa...Rihanna called, she wants her forehead back.

Over $40 dinner. Tri-tip sandwich, cheese steak sandwich, Widmer Hef, over-priced and under-alcoholed strawberry margarita, "not enough garlic" fries. But overall it was pretty good. Stadium food is more for the experience, I'd say.

 Stephen Curry

Stephen Curry

Some highlights of the experience:

By the way, Warriors defeated the Clippers, 132-102. Hope I didn't spoil this for anyone who is a week behind on their sports. I think basketball is a sport I could definitely watch live again. And with that said, I leave you with these two words, Stephen Curry. 

Oracle Arena on Yelp

Ribs and Things on Yelp (where I got my delicious tri-tip sandwich)