Although the official boarding time is after noon, we were on the September 2, 2006 cruise and they started boarding Group Numbers 2 and 3 at about 11:30 pm and the remaining groups boarded quickly after that. 2:30 p.m. seemed a good time because you cannot get to your cabin until 1:30 and the life boat drill is around 4. So, we got on, had time to eat lunch, got to our cabin, and had plenty of time to get there by 2:30. Plus, having it later would probably start interfering with some dinners and kids who want to go the clubs. I know as soon as Ocean Quest is available, my daughters will down there and there will be no dragging them out for the meeting.
As to the photo, I think it a great idea. We discussed this for the last meeting, but it kind of fell apart and no one took a picture. If anyone is interested in the group pic, let me know and I will see what I can do to set it up.
One thing the last group did was set up a virtual cruise album and people could submit pictures of themselves before the cruise that were posted there. In that way, we could put names and faces together to some extent before the cruise started. If anyone is interested in that, I would be willing to set up the virtual cruise album for this purpose.
