Thanks to everyone for setting this up. It was nothing short of amazing! The galaxy dive was better than I expected, and the camaraderie around the campfire was absolutely fantastic.
I met lots of great people, had lots of fun, and thoroughly enjoyed my weekend.
Several of us "noobs" were talking about the event. One thing that struck us all was that it's the first dive trip I've been on that as best I could tell the organizers were not trying to make money on. In fact, as far as I could tell the folks organizing probably put up a lot of money for the food and other things they brought.
I'll post some of the campfire videos I took once I get them onto youtube...