I love this post @derekrichardson! How awesome it must be to actually meet people face to face after talking with them for so long. It must be a little weird and mind-blowing in some ways too, because if you're anything like me, you develop your own mental images of what people are like and let's face it, most of the time, it doesn't really match up haha
Good for you to organize it though; of course the batteries and camera didn't cooperate with your schedule :)