I loved this double exp weekend. We started out in Mines, after 2 mins the party which was book burning died. Two of us decided at level 17 and 23 to go to the dunes. Then 4 friends joined us. We had an ole fashion dunes party. The problem was, for the first time in years, we couldn't find any mobs to kill using the books. There were all kinds of people in the dunes. We gave up on doing books and after awhile decided to become a roving party, so we killed everything between the op and the secret beach. When we figured it was time to change areas we went to the jungle and killed mandies. I went from 23 to 41 yesterday and had the time of my game life. Very nostalgic.
We also noticed that we had no whm, except I was pup/whm and we had a smn/whm, back in the day it was all you could do to keep people alive in dunes with a real whm or rdm. But experience kept us alive, we did have the occasional death but it was all in great fun.
You don't realize what you are missing until it is gone. All the rush in Abyssea to get to 99. I had lvl'd the long way my first 4 or 5 jobs and then blasted the others up. But after yesterday I found that I really missed the party life. Of course I have to admit that the crazy exp (esp with my annual exp ring still good) helped to make the day enjoyable. I also met 5 very nice people.