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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Pop century in December with an almost 4 year old
It's that time again... the time to start reading peoples trip reports, to look up everything Disney, to dream away... why, you may ask?... Well, because WE ARE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD AGAIN!!!
It wasn't a planned trip... we were suppossed to go in 2014, no 2013... oh wait no 2012. (I shall explain this later, let me introduce our 'cast members' first)
To start off with the most important person: my daughter Elora who is three and will be three months shy of four when we go on our trip.
Elora is one of those happy go lucky children who is a combination of Donkey (from Shrek, only she talks MORE  ) cinderella and stich. Right now her greatest ambition is to be a princess/ mermaid/ ballerina/ animal rescuer and she is going to marry Diego, Prince Phillip and her daddy. She is happy at least 80% of the time and people often marvel at her sunny disposition. Elora only turns into one of the seven dwarves (grumpy) when she is lacking sleep. Jetlag is not her friend (or ours for that matter). She tends to get very stubborn and will say 'no' before you managed to form a question. But even in her grumpy mood she's not too bad, we don't really suffer from tantrums with her, she's more like a propper teen... a little moody. 
Then there is my DH
He is the love of my life. I am not going to call him my prince charming (not because he is not, but because I am not the kind of girl who likes princes... I was always more of a sucker for the bad guys  ) though he does have all the makings of a prince charming. He treats me really well. Even after 8 1/2 years of being together and 6 years of marriage, he manages to surprise me with the little things in life. I am a lucky woman!
DH never really 'got the disney hype' until we went to 'the world' last December. He went along for me, but it wasn't his first choice. Euro Disney really turned him off a little. To be honest, I don't love Euro Disney (or Disneyland Paris, depends who you are talking to) either. I like it, but I don't lurve it!
But being in Florida changed all that, even though he's mostly in it for the food... but that's okay, I'm not picky. I will take any kind of enthousiasm that I can get.
And lastly, there is moi (It is hard to catch me on film without me looking like I am having some sort of attaque, talking or just generally looking like a turnip, so here's me in a family picture where I don't look all too horrible 
I tend to post my wedding or bachellorette party pictures, but that is unfair, because I don't look the same after my pregnancy.
I'm a former primary school substitute teacher and right now I am a social worker, but I really hate my job, so I hope not to be a social worker for very much longer  . Like the rest of my family, I'm Dutch, but because I studied in international schools and lived in England for a few years, I am not 'typically Dutch' (if there is such a thing) I am raising Elora to be bilingual.
The disney craziness in my family starts with me. I love all things Disney and defend it against my "holier than thou" friends who shun commercialism. Which I think is ironic, because the arthouse stuff that they are into is just as commercial. Luckily most of my friends are just as nuts about Disney as I am.
My first trip to Disney world was in 1980. I was a little older than Elora is now (for the creative mathmaticians, I am 34 now), and it is one of the few things from that period I have memories off. From that moment on, I was in love!
Our last trip to the world was in December and we took my mum along. That had it's ups and it's downs. My mother is as fanatic about Disney as I am and we had a lot of laughs together... but we stayed at the same room for two weeks... well... what can I say. Anyone who passed their thirties willing to stay with one of their parents in the same room? No takers? I'm not surprised (and for those of you who would, either you are a lot more tolerant than I am... or your parents aren't like mine... I felt like I was stuck in an episode of 'everyone love Raymond')
Last trip we stayed on site and it was my first time staying on site. It was wonderfull and lost my heart to the Animal Kingdom Lodge. We spend 3 weeks there, in December, right before christmas and 3 weeks wasn't even enough to see everything.
Anyway... I think I have told you enough about who we are (though I could fill books about my daughter mind you!) and I should tell you about our plans for this trip. |
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