Wednesday, August 01, 2007

2007 REUNION ATTENDANCE

By Michele's count, we had 109 people attend the return this year! (110 if you count baby Ellnor.) Wow. This is down from 117 last year. (I can't remember if that included baby Gallagher, Paynter & Goedde or not.)

4 comments:

Mary Jo said...

work, I know, but I'd be interested in a breakdown of some kind. If Deni Riley was blown away by "all the little kids" - there must be a lot of them.

This also affects meals - 110 people is not 110 meals...witness Claire cub and Maria and Joseph - and how many more.

Dan and Denise said...

Get right on that, Michele! :)


In the future, I do not think that any adjustments to meal planning should be made to account for attendance increases/decreases. I think that we should continue to plan for 100 people, knowing that some of them are "little people" and won't eat a full serving. That will make up for the extra 10-20 that attend above the 100.

The whole "let's adjust how much food we take because So-And-So isn't coming" was an issue this year. It shouldn't have been.

Mary Jo said...

You know, it seems as if it ought to matter if so and so isn't coming - but you're right Deni, it really doesn't.

And witness all the phone calls back and forth with "now they're coming, no, wait, they're not" was confusing and unnecessary.

I too think it is a better idea to plan for a certain number...and 100 seems appropriate...then that is the end of discussion.

I have a different viewpoint from Michele's. I say, "eat till it's gone" - no leftovers - GREAT!

There hasn't been one time where there wasn't enough food that people went HUNGRY - there is always something to eat at this reunion.

And as I quoted Dwight David Eisenhower to Joseph Thomas Gallagher as Joe was piling on the taco salad, "Take all you want, but eat all you take" (he did!)

I think we waste more food that we ought to...

Dan and Denise said...

I remember a year when you and Mom went to town and bought hot dogs because somebody forgot to bring their food!

That's the only time that I ever remember us not having enough food --- ever!