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So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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08-17-2001, 09:30 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
He was led out to the back by the girls (they needed to go outside) and as he walked out the back door, he just smiled! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] He looked it over leaned on a rail and said "You did a good job." Then he looked over at the hot tub and said he has been wanting one and kept on smiling. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
I want to take this time to thank all of you who offered to give up a room so that I could stay if tossed out on my ears. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I was going to put everyones name in a hat and pull one (then hope it wasn't one with the stipulation that I had to bring the deck along too [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img])
Right now he is out having coffee with DD & I believe they are discussing the apparently never ending saga of Shannon & the National Guards. They are still playing games... but now that DH is back he will get the fur flying again [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I guess with him liking the deck and tub, our Jan. trip is still on [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-17-2001, 09:48 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
Posts: 542
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
HOORAY and great news for you!!! Glad to hear you still have your own roof over your head. But I do have one question...what are you going to do as a follow up on his next out of town stay???
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08-17-2001, 09:52 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Clio, MI, USA
Posts: 1,711
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Hooray!!! Hope your B/P goes down now! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
I think next time you should really give that Bar-B-Q serious consideration!
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08-17-2001, 09:53 AM
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Glad to hear you good news!!!
Enjoy the deck and hot tub, and take a soak for me...
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08-17-2001, 09:55 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
hehehehehehe........ wow! It don't take long for you to catch on [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Well actually I am thinking about getting a gas fire place. Haven't figured out how I am going to do this one yet. He will be going away in November for 2 weeks to Canada and have been thinking of having it done then but maybe I should let him in on this as I need some work done before the fireplace could go in.... such as 2 windows removed and the space closed up. I also have to go out and check the different gas companies to see what fireplaces they have to offer.
When I get this in, I plan on having floor to ceiling book cases built in on each side of the fireplace..... oh the dreams I have [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-17-2001, 11:11 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Whew! I had trouble sleeping last wondering about "the deck incident". [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] It was either that, or I just had to go to the bathroom a lot last night.
Glad it came out like it did. That's great Debe. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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08-17-2001, 11:54 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Robbinsdale, MN
Posts: 7,526
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Whooo-hooo, debe! Now you can *really* enjoy that deck and hot tub, with no more worries about what he'll say! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
Sandy
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08-17-2001, 11:55 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Lambertville, NJ
Posts: 706
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
WOO HOO!!!! I'm so glad that he didn't flip when he saw the deck and hot tub... although I was looking forward to you visiting! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] LOL!
I'm really glad everything worked out for you!
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08-17-2001, 04:29 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Glad to hear that DH loved the deck and hot tub, Debe. And that your Jan. trip is still on. Anything additions to the house planned while your on that trip? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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08-17-2001, 06:01 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Hooray for you! I would have been out on my ear!
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08-17-2001, 06:16 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Toms River, NJ
Posts: 3,062
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Congrats Deb!, I'm glad to hear the good news! As for the fireplace, ya should definitely strike now while the iron's hot, while you're on a roll, etc, and so forth...
-Jose Carioca
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08-17-2001, 08:58 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 11,259
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
hehehehe... I am always on a ROLL [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Haven't hit him with the Fireplace yet but would like him to go with me to pick one out that I like [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] (like that one [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img])
Guess where we were this afternoon???? Sitting in the hot tub watching the girls run around in the back yard.... it was so nice!! Now to get him out there in the evening [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img].........
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08-17-2001, 09:33 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Kempton, PA
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Darn it, I could have really used that deck! Oh, well I guess I'm on my own. Although my mother keeps telling me I would have that deck if I would stop going to Disney. She just does not have her priorities straight [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] !
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08-17-2001, 10:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Cape May Court House NJ USA
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
LOL....MrsM, your mom wouldn't be from Sprole PA would she [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] My mom says the same thing to me everytime I say I can't afford something [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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08-17-2001, 10:36 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
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Posts: 13,087
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Re: The verdict is in......... DH came home early and............
Awww, what a bummer! I was so looking forward to having a fellow nut, uh - I mean Disney nut, in the house (well, apartment)! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
I'm glad DH gave the seal of approval.
debe said:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Now to get him out there in the evening [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] ... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I'm shocked! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] |
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