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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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Location: Lafayette, LA & BCV
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Macy\'s Surprise Trip - Updated 1/30
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly a month since our trip. Time has really flown and things around here have been BUSY! Since my friend [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/zwavin.gif[/img] Terri (DrDolphin) is anxiously waiting to read about the surprise, I am going to try to get started with my trip report and hopefully I can have plenty of it up by the time all the Mousefesters return from their trip and start their reports! I won't post any pictures this weekend since I am writing from home and using dial-up internet (remember I live in the boonies and dial-up is all we get - ahhhh the joys of country life). Ready?? Here we go...[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img]
Trip dates: October 27th to November 2nd, 2005 (not the original plan but we'll get to that shortly)
Adventurers: Me, my sister, Kim and my daughter, Macy
Last fall, after reading so many great things about Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party and the Food and Wine Festival, I knew I had to experience these events .[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] The annual passes I bought in May gave me the perfect excuse to plan a short trip - gotta get my money’s worth, right? Knowing that Charlie wouldn’t be interested in another trip to Disney so soon, I asked my sister if she would be interested in going to Disneyworld with Macy and I for Halloween. She had only been to Disneyworld once when she was 4 but had very little memory of that trip and I knew she would love to experience Disney with Macy. She said [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img] and the planning began.
The first thing we decided was that the trip would be a surprise for Macy. Next, we decided we would fly out of New Orleans on Saturday, October 29 and stay in Orlando until Wednesday, November 2. We also decided that we had to spend Halloween in Magic Kingdom at Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party even though we knew it would sell out and the park could get crowded. I rented DVC points for a studio at Beach Club Villas and purchased our tickets to the Halloween Party. Thanks to a great Ding rate from Southwest, we purchased our airline tickets for $82 roundtrip per person [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/waytogo.gif[/img]. Yes indeed, things were falling into place for this surprise trip and we were going to have so much fun!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img][img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]
Many emails were exchanged while we decided where to dine [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/hungry.gif[/img] and what things my sister most wanted to see in the little time we had. Somewhere along the way I started emailing her a Disney Picture of the Day. This came to be the highlight of our mornings while counting down the days until our trip.
Next up - August brings lots of changes. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/jack.gif[/img]
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