That's All Folks! Tour Dinner, The Last Night of Tour, and Our Journey Home

What an eventful evening following our trip to Alcatraz Island! It began outside our hostel, when we were approached by two men, Opera and Rick, who sang a great selection of songs to us before we shared a few songs with them in return! The exchange only lasted a few minutes, but it was quite a nice change of pace from being the only group that randomly breaks into song on the street!

Then there was the tour dinner itself at Buca di Beppo. This down-market chain of Italian-American diners features over-the-top Italianate décor and vintage photographs throughout the entire restaurant.

We couldn't have asked for a better set up, either. We had an entire room in the basement to ourselves, with two long tables holding all of us. Also, the food was served family style and it was delicious! We started with two different salads, the apple gorgonzola and the caesar, followed by penne san remo and both chicken and eggplant parmigiana. We concluded our meal with an abundance of decadent double dark chocolate cake. Needless to say, we were stuffed and satisfied!

Little did they know how much would be consumed after we took our seats!

Following dinner we had some free time before gathering again for our last-night-of-tour festivities. Initially we had intended to carry out the celebrations in the hostel, but they weren't exactly receptive to the idea of opening a room for 44 college students. Suffice it to say that we spent the next couple of hours looking for another location before resigning ourselves to a public space outside of a BART (Bay Area Regional Transit) station 2 blocks away. It may not have been the most furnished space and we may have used trash bags as cushions on the damp ground, but it was a great evening and now makes for a great story of coming together in such a space to celebrate one another and the group that brought us together.

The following morning everyone began the journey toward the rest of their summers. We said goodbye to one another, said goodbye to alums Craig Pottruck and Rob Croll, and prepared ourselves for our trips, wherever they would take us.

In classic Glee Club fashion, we obstruct all movement in the airport

Look at the view from the plane on the flight to Philadelphia!

Now The Oddly Pacific Tour has come to a close, we've said goodbye to our beloved graduates, and we're off onto many different summer adventures. There's just one thing left to do before this blog ends, and that's a song in honor of the performance, tradition, and especially the brotherhood embodied in the Penn Glee Club experience:

Here's to you, Penn Glee Club.

Here's to you my jovial friends.

And we'll drink before we part

for sake of company.

We'll drink before we part.

Here's to you, 

my best friends.