Lisapalooza

One of the hardest parts of leaving the San Francisco for Zurich will be leaving behind all of my friends and family. I still think I am completely crazy leaving this all behind because not too many people have so many special and close friends all within the city’s limits. And for that I am truly blessed. So in order to celebrate those friendships (and to get enough blackmail to make the friends come visit), the ultimate party was thrown…Lisapolooza.

What can one say about Lisapoloooza? Lisapolooza, to summarize, was my week long going away party which in fact ran a little longer than a week, but who is really counting. Activities included a traditional Swiss dinner with the old roomies, two Tuesday Night Happy Hours at City Tavern, Girl’s Night In, Tainted Love, fancy dinners, favorite restaurants, large bar tabs, even larger hang overs and the best friends a girl could ask for. There is no way I could possibly capture all of the fun memories I have from that week, nor will I even try as it could take weeks to document it all.

Here though are a few of my favorite moments:

• All of my groups of friends joining up for the festivities. I mean how often can a girl get old college roommates, college friends, old SF roommates, kickball friends, co-workers, and new friends met along the way to all meet up at one bar on a week night?
• Pre-Party for Tainted Love at Nova’s house
• Watching my favorite cover band Tainted Love
• Joanna and Jeni* getting into the fight of the year with some claustrophobic chic instigated by Nova. (Jo those bruises still haunt me) and of course the follow up 50 emails the following day describing the event
• Brunch with the girls and the mayor at Balboa Café (well, almost, he was only one table away)

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out to wish me well, or just ensure that I was in fact leaving.

Some of the photos from the week of activities (unfortunately I only included those where I didn't look too hammered, which eliminated over half of the selection).