The first thing I remember is being in a restaurant with my family and the Baumstumpf family, which for some reason, added up to about 25 people.  We were at a familiar restaurant, and I knew they happened to have at least one very large table that could accommodate 20, but then I considered that it would mean the remaining five would basically be on their own or separate from the group.  It seemed like a reasonable possibility to get a second table, given the size of our group, and not wanting to have an unreasonable expectation or excessive burden on the restaurant to accommodate our desire to stay together, but it still wasn’t an ideal solution.  So we walked down the street to try an alternative, and soon arrived at a walk-up pizza place that was slightly lower than street level.  Arrick K. from high school was ahead of us, (myself and my mom I guess were leading this exploration) and he just went down quickly and got himself a personal size pizza or a slice or two.  I suppose the option here was for everyone to go one-by-one, but then the obvious issue was that the first people in our group would probably be completely done before the last of us even got their orders in.  It removed the opportunity to have this be a together/collective experience.

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