My trip to the E-B, Part Two

When I visited Oakland last weekend, I spent the night at Ren's lovely bachelorette pad. Ren recently moved into an adorable, classic apartment in downtown Oakland (crawling distance to the Ruby Room!) near Lake Merritt.

On Saturday we took a brief stroll around the hood. We visited the beautiful Grand Regillus building and I snapped a pic of the rear entrance:



Here are other pics of the hood, thanks to Ren!


Tudor Hall, a lovely apartment building.


Oak tree?


A view of Oakland City Hall, from across Lake Merritt.


Another view of the lake (near Grand and Lakeshore).

Here are some pics of Ren's lovely place!


The staircases leading up to her apartment.


The living room, by night. Ren has a day bed in the living room, all SATC-style.


The same room, but by day. The light is lovely all day in her apartment.


Another view of her apartment.


And one more.


Ren's ability to organize is awe-inspiring.

We did spend some time outside the apartment, too. We left Ren's nest for a few hours and had a scrumptious sushi dinner at Miyozen with Karen and Denis.