A special birthday, a diamond anniversary and a west coast adventure UPDATED 9/12 - Page 4 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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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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Your Facebook photos of Paint the Night and Disneyland Forever got me so excited today. I checked my weather app soon after getting up and moaned for you when I saw how hot Anaheim was supposed to be. Hope you've managed to stay cool at least part of the day.
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I can't wait to see the photos from Club 33! Glad you enjoyed Paint the Night and Disneyland Forever. Both are incredible!
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It is sapping and I gather we're not alone. I understand some of New England is in the 90s as well...
We've been in the mid 90's but today was in the 80's but with a very high dew point so not a heck of a lot of relief. We did get some rain late in the day and (hopefully) it'll be cooler
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I just hope it cools down for our New England trip!
When will you be here? The temps are going down now, but we're supposed to get more heat next week. You know what they say about New England. "Don't like the weather? Wait a minute, it'll change"
Your Facebook photos of Paint the Night and Disneyland Forever got me so excited today.
Oh you will absolutely love both.
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I checked my weather app soon after getting up and moaned for you when I saw how hot Anaheim was supposed to be. Hope you've managed to stay cool at least part of the day.
We just about managed, but it has been very tiring. I'm hoping your trip will see much cooler temperatures, as it's alright for us, as we've been to Disneyland a number of times before, but if you're a first timer, you want to see and do as much as you can and not be hampered by the heat.
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When will you be here? The temps are going down now, but we're supposed to get more heat next week. You know what they say about New England. "Don't like the weather? Wait a minute, it'll change"
We fly back out to Boston on 23 September for a week. Are you joining us for the PassPorter meet in Boston? I can't remember off the top of my head....
Finally getting caught up again. Sounds like your vacation is full of wonderfulness (that's a word, right?) Bears, whales, Club 33, good friends and no work all sound good to me!
Finally getting caught up again. Sounds like your vacation is full of wonderfulness (that's a word, right?) Bears, whales, Club 33, good friends and no work all sound good to me!
How funny - I just used the word "wonderfulness" in the part of the trip report I was writing last night and Word didn't auto-correct it, so I guess it is a word...
We did get a lot more done yesterday, despite the heat. We had a lovely lunch in the Carthay Circle lounge, then went to the restaurant for dinner with Karen and Sharon - such a good time. We saw World of Color with them, which was just amazing, before sadly having to say goodbye to them.
Today is early opening at 7:00am at the California Adventure, which we're planning on going to, then we'll spend some time at Disneyland, and hopefully ride Haunted Mansion, before coming back to shower, change etc. and check out. Can't believe we fly home tonight - where have the last two weeks gone?
We did get a lot more done yesterday, despite the heat. We had a lovely lunch in the Carthay Circle lounge, then went to the restaurant for dinner with Karen and Sharon - such a good time. We saw World of Color with them, which was just amazing, before sadly having to say goodbye to them.
Today is early opening at 7:00am at the California Adventure, which we're planning on going to, then we'll spend some time at Disneyland, and hopefully ride Haunted Mansion, before coming back to shower, change etc. and check out. Can't believe we fly home tonight - where have the last two weeks gone?
We had a wonderful dinner at Carthay Circle and can't wait to go back. Glad you had a nice meal there. You might want to give Napa Riose another chance. We've had anazing meals there - the best was the Chefs Tasting Menu with wine pairings. But we did have a weird glitch with the table next to us. They let their toddler hide under our table. Unbelievable. Since nobody would handle it, we insisted on a table change but it wasn't as nice of a location. Thankfully, the food was incredible!
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We saw World of Color with them, which was just amazing, before sadly having to say goodbye to them. 
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