Sweeet. We started out with a DM for in person Phandelver, but we got one session in and he dropped for personal reasons, feelsbad.
With the desire, nay need to play the game, one of our group took on the mantle of DM and we're currently running Waterdeep with his player character as a semi DMNPC. Started with In person sessions for that, with the idea of rotating hosts, then shifted to online using Discord, D&D Beyond, and Foundry Virtual Tabletop.
Right now the party consists of;
Ivanov Steelhand - Mountain Dwarf - Bard/Paladin.
Anna Maria - Half-Orc - Life Cleric
Raphael Pridefist - Halfling - Monk
Aruta - Half-Elf - Ranger/Hunter
So far there's been some shenanigans consisting of my Bard convincing the Ranger to surf down Mount Waterdeep on his shield, not quite sticking the landing, but survived overall. Our Life Cleric nearly TPK'd us when casually tossing an, at the time unidentified, Necklace of Fireball onto the table we were all sitting around. Skibidiba mm dada BOOM!! It was defused in time, but we now have a literal tactical nuke. No seriously, it leveled a house nearby and used only one tiny gem.
We're all still learning, but most importantly we're having fun, and recreating some moments in Heroforge, like the home run swing the Life Cleric got on an imp with her mace.
Currently we're in jail at the moment, so I figure we've arrived as a D&D party. lol