Inspired by a classmate who had "drive-through cake," earlier this year, we asked Benji if he would be interested in having local friends stop by for cake after his bar mitzvah service. He was enthusiastic about this idea, but then the weather forecast for his entire bar mitzvah weekend was rain. We decided to postpone for a week, and even though the weather turned out fine, we were glad to have done so. What we thought would be a low-key couple of hours of people stopping by in ones and twos actually felt much more like a party than we expected. Most of our friends here are fully vaccinated and chose to stay for a while. We had luckily divided the crowd into three groups (UVA friends, teacher friends, and CBI friends) and given them different times, so no more than 20 or so people were here at a time. This did make for a long afternoon (about three and a half hours), which was exhausting after having not done any live socializing in months. It was so fun to see everyone, though, and Benji was happy to see his friends:
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| Kiran decided this group was in a circle so we must have been playing duck, duck, goose |
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| Benji was so happy to see Aidan and Wilson |
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