Wine, friendship, crème brulee and dinner on the Seine! COMPLETED - Page 10 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
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!
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Laurie the cat and dog are moving in with gemma in Scotland when we go to Australia. Scott the dog is too old for that journey. That way when the boys are home the animals can be too if gemma will part with them. She is really missing them
Awww, the pet photos. So cute!
I don't think I've ever seen anyone so dressed up to cook outside on the grill. Very fancy indeed.
The near nighttime photos look great - the best time of the day for photos!
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Hazel - I love your outfit!!! You look adorable!
Cheryl, when will we see yours???
Hmmm.... you actually really don't. There's the shot in my signature of the two of us in front of the Eiffel Tower, but that's it. I failed on getting photos of us... I was hoping the photos they took on the boat would be good enough to buy, but they weren't.
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I am so convinced that I need to go to Paris! It is just so picturesque!
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Laurie the cat and dog are moving in with gemma in Scotland when we go to Australia. Scott the dog is too old for that journey. That way when the boys are home the animals can be too if gemma will part with them. She is really missing them
They also seemed to miss her, given that Scott was outside her bedroom door that first morning!
Hmmm.... you actually really don't. There's the shot in my signature of the two of us in front of the Eiffel Tower, but that's it. I failed on getting photos of us... I was hoping the photos they took on the boat would be good enough to buy, but they weren't.
It is a beautiful city.
Actually I have one to share one I finally get wifi
Actually I have one to share one I finally get wifi
Yay - I was hoping you'd say that! It missed my digital photobook - I put that in this morning, as the 40% discount code finishes tomorrow and I did not want to miss that. I'll be sure to bring that up with us when we come to see you guys for New Year.
Yay - I was hoping you'd say that! It missed my digital photobook - I put that in this morning, as the 40% discount code finishes tomorrow and I did not want to miss that. I'll be sure to bring that up with us when we come to see you guys for New Year.
Still no wifi BT has a technical problem outside surprise surprise hopefully tomorrow
Hazel, you do look very chic - especially for a burger-flipper!
Hoping those skies just continue to look scary, and don't produce anything wet!
How fun for Gemma that the animals will move in with her! Will Rory miss having pets in Australia? Maybe he can get a koala (that's what my 14 yr DD would be angling for!)?!
Hazel, you do look very chic - especially for a burger-flipper!
She certainly did look chic and especially so when you put it that way!
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Hoping those skies just continue to look scary, and don't produce anything wet!
How fun for Gemma that the animals will move in with her! Will Rory miss having pets in Australia? Maybe he can get a koala (that's what my 14 yr DD would be angling for!)?!
I'm sure Hazel can answer this much better than me, but aren't those things actually supposed to be quite dangerous? I'm sure I remember that from somewhere, as I was so shocked, as they look so cute....
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As far as I know, there were no complaints about your cooking....
It missed my digital photobook - I put that in this morning, as the 40% discount code finishes tomorrow and I did not want to miss that. 
I'll be sure to bring that up with us when we come to see you guys for New Year. 
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