A recipe for the future?

I'm hostessing a special meeting of a ladies' group tomorrow evening.  What makes the event so special is that we will be at the home of the eldest member of the group ... she'll turn 100 years old this summer.  We met at her home a year ago and she wanted us to make sure we included her on the calendar this year.  Ladies are always watching their weight, but if we are honest we really like to eat too.  This being the case, I knew I would have to come up with a special dessert to fit the occasion and began leafing through my collection of church cookbooks.  Don't laugh!  They have the best recipes because they are all time honored and taste tested.  Having lived in various states, I possess a nice assortment.  I talked the choices over with my hubby as to ease and availability of ingredients.  I narrowed the choice down to two; one from a cookbook; and the other, a family recipe and of course I hadn't made either one of these desserts in years.  My hubby came to the rescue and made the decision I should make the family recipe.  Sounded good to me too.  I've been feeling a bit homesick lately and this is my grandmother's recipe for Pretzel Torte.  Try as I might, I could not find my copy of the recipe.  Now, I used to make this dessert a lot so I had a vague recollection but I'm trying to impress the ladies and figured I better have the real thing.  I got on Facebook and messaged my mom, one of my sisters, my aunt and four cousins.  One of them was bound to have Grandma's recipe.  Within hours as they heard my plight I received the recipe from a cousin via her phone to my e-mail.  Another cousin couldn't find her copy either and wanted me to share when I got the recipe.  My mom e-mailed me her copy that night.  Don't you just love this modern technology?  Meanwhile Hubby got on the internet and was trying to find the recipe too.  There are a lot of versions for this dessert!  My aunt had a copy but hadn't tried the recipe and  all the cousins wanted to try this too.  So I wrote up what I received and was able to message everyone.  Isn't it wonderful that we are able to contact one another in this manner and share over the internet something so connective as an old family recipe?  I've decided this would make a great family re-union.  We can pick a date which works for each of our families and each family can make Grandma's Pretzel Torte and there we have it ... a family re-union without leaving the comfort of one's own home.  Chatting and texting are already in force among so many.  Skyping would be the icing on the cake.  Voila! The family re-union of the future is born!  Somehow I don't really think this is what Grandma had in mind.