Last week we had an all-day Isobar company meeting, as we do every year. The annual t-shirt contest was reinstated and everyone got the winner’s shirt, which featured a skeleton astronaut(?). At about 2:00 or 2:30, we headed over to Bub City, where we had the whole place rented out to ourselves. I’d never been to Bub City and I really liked the space. There was a band playing that was really good and after a while, when the drinks started kicking in, they let people come up and sing songs like live band karaoke. There was a barbecue buffet that people said was good, but there were also a ton of passed appetizers and I mostly ate those.
I made Romi do his first shot of Malort and now he thinks he can call himself a true Chicagoan. Little did I know that would come back to bite me later on when Mike made me do a shot of Malort! Karma.
Bub City (View Larger)
Good ol’ American sliders
AJ + Mike
Adam + AJ
Lobster Roll
Becky, Michelle, Rachelle, Katie, Megan
Bryan, Ujval + Me
Michelle, Bryan + Me
Romi, George + Me
Egor + Sam line dancing
Sheriff George
Vinay
Ronak
Sam + Me
Romi’s first shot of Malort. (I had Fireball.)
This mannequin is the first thing you see when you open the women’s bathroom door. Aimee actually screamed and slammed the door shut. I cautiously reopened it and we realized the joke.
Dancing!
Detroit girls came to party.
Detroit Isobar.
I think they sang some Back Street Boys.
I can’t remember what these guys sang.
Brian from the Denver office started to sing Purple Rain and everyone was like “no way… ” And then he killed it!
Jen nailled it too, with her rendition of Bobby McGee.
I drunkenly walked past these Dayo and Jeff, saw they both were wearing blueish shirts, and called them twins. Then they joked for a long time how they look SO MUCH alike (not at all).
AJ + Ann
AJ + Sam
The Dance Floor!!
Cowboy Mike
Back in the Bathroom!
After the official party was over, we went to Sportsman’s Club. They have an awesome patio and the weather was finally perfect. Things got a bit sloppy and we practically attacked the tamale guy, but it was nice to hang out with all my work friends, not in the work setting. Super fun time!
Julia + Rudy
Julia + Rudy
Chris + Me
AJ photobombing Anne + Me
Rudy + AJ
Oh, and one photo that I have from the meeting. Saurab moderated a panel of all of last year’s value award winners. Becky, Chris and Romi are on my old project that I just switched away from a few months ago. Sloane and Kevin are on my new project team.
Past Roundarch/Roundarch Isobar/Isobar Summer Events:
2015: ROOF on theWit
2014: American Junkie (rain backup to Oak Street Beach)
2013: The Rooftop at Market
2011: Millennium Park (daytime photos, nighttime photos)
2011: Paris Club
2010: Shedd Aquarium (Also celebrating Roundarch’s 10 year anniversary)
2009: Party at the River East Arts Center
2008: Wendella Architectural Boat Tour and dinner/drinks at the Adler Planetarium