Well... Maybe a teeny bit more detail is in order. The day kicks off with us getting to the port bright and early, about 9:30-10. already in the process of unloading were the Scubas and GarRy&co. And yes, he has a VERY interesting hat. Well, we line up outside, right by where they'll be taking the luggage. Porters come out, take the luggage, and we go in the terminal in a mad rush, with little Lisa dragging this heavy backpack of the wine. Vicki grabs the backpack and scoots Lisa off to go grab a place for us. We then proceed to hang out and others from the group keep bopping by to say hi and Mary and I give out the navs/buttons to them with some help from Garry and Gregg. More we gave away then, less to drag around and we'd later be glad for that. Well, Virgil and Stacey and the rest of the concierge/handicapped get first boarding. Then we go in and the three families of us get a group boarding photo, and we have them annouce us as the Dis Family.
At this point we split up, as Mary and I still have a job to do. We then spend the next half hour canvassing the passenger decks delivering all the rest of the navs to the message fish by the cabins.
That was a lot of work. Hope the results at the impeding meet in an hour and a half show it.
Then we have a good buffet lunch at a suprisingly empty topsiders, and wind up here in Cove Cafe. It is VERY nice. And they've upgraded the machines, no more annoying custom browsing thing. It opens a standard windows desktop.
Well, off to go find our own cabing now and begin to settle in.
'Twas the week before Christmas, when the big ships cruised
A toast to friends we have not yet met and to friends we have leave behind until another time. 
We'll be thinking of those that were not able to make it... and hope that we can meet another time!
TFD
Happy Cruising 
