the first night on my other cruises has always been great the games are fun, and you meet a lot of new people at once, me and my cousin are definately going on the teen excursion, and i think one of the adults on the board has a 15 yr old boy and another with a 14 and 15 yr old girls, so hopefully they'll be in the mix of people i meet... im sure our cruise will be great! hope yours is to! and ill tell you how it went/post pictures (if i figure out how! lol)