The First Thing you need is a Pumpkin, (and the right Princess!) Trip report. Jan26-31. - UPDATED 3/9 with more PhotoPass Pics!! - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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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Brent pretty much covered all the pics we have, so I am doing this update sans pics! Thats ok.....I have something more valuable!! The cold, hard truth! LOL
I think Brent may have *inadvertantly* left out a cute little story. So as we are walking out of the hotel to go to the park we did not immediatly locate our cute little white rental car, which I told him to park by something distinguishable........so he did......A TREE!!!! A TREE......yeah, there aren't 75 trees among the rows in the parking lot! LOL I spotted the car and said "honey, I think I see the....." Brent was still feeling a bit shaken but his earlier Aurora toasting and needing to prove himself, he cut me off with "I parked the car didn't I?? I know where I parked, let me do the thinking here!" Oh no!! Whenever I hear that phrase its sure to not end well! LOL We have some noteable history with that same quote......sigh, so I let him wander for quite a little bit, follwing 2 steps behind (and snickering), he finally spotted the car and was so proud. I told him I tried to tell you this was it 15 minutes ago! We *I* had a good chuckle about that!!
yes Liz took a nap. A short nap. This working midnight and vacationing on a day schedule was starting to catch up with me. No fear, I can power sleep for 30-60 minutes and am recharged for hours! Another thing us night shifters learn to acheive!
I just love Laugh Floor Inc! I don't care how many times I see it or how the jokes are always pretty much the same....I just love it. Evidently the kid in there before us wasn't as impressed......some gastric regergitation delayed our show just a bit.
Oh I just loved the dinner at 1900 PF. It was so amazing, as always. It has so much history. I just feel so good being there! Where things changed for us, where he proposed. Just a happy, feel good place. Now the story about the twirling. Anastasia came over to our table and tapped Brent on the shoulder, she whispered "you should dance with her and winked". Brent was all shy and I couldn't convince him, so I called out to Anastasia and informed her he wouldn't go! She quickly came back to our table and swooped him up by the hand while screaming "Cinderella!! Cinderella!! Oh, Cinderella!!!!!!" It was "game on" from there, she saw Brent and her eyes seemed to light up, they looked so royal dancing together. Anastasia stood behind them watching. She told me sometimes we just have to give guys a little boost, ya know, tell them what they 'want' to do! She is so good at giving advice about boys! She is my hero! It was so cool, he was just on cloud 9!
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I spotted the car and said "honey, I think I see the....." Brent was still feeling a bit shaken but his earlier Aurora toasting 
and needing to prove himself, he cut me off with "I parked the car didn't I?? 
I know where I parked, let me do the thinking here!" Oh no!! Whenever I hear that phrase its sure to not end well! LOL We have some noteable history with that same quote......sigh, so I let him wander for quite a little bit, follwing 2 steps behind (and snickering), he finally spotted the car and was so proud. I told him I tried to tell you this was it 15 minutes ago! We *I* had a good chuckle about that!! 
This working midnight and vacationing on a day schedule was starting to catch up with me. No fear, I can power sleep for 30-60 minutes and am recharged for hours! Another thing us night shifters learn to acheive! 
Where things changed for us, where he proposed. Just a happy, feel good place. Now the story about the twirling. Anastasia came over to our table and tapped Brent on the shoulder, she whispered "you should dance with her and winked". Brent was all shy and I couldn't convince him, so I called out to Anastasia and informed her he wouldn't go! She quickly came back to our table and swooped him up by the hand while screaming "Cinderella!! Cinderella!! Oh, Cinderella!!!!!!" It was "game on" from there, she saw Brent and her eyes seemed to light up, they looked so royal dancing together. 
Anastasia stood behind them watching. She told me sometimes we just have to give guys a little boost, ya know, tell them what they 'want' to do! She is so good at giving advice about boys! 
She is my hero! It was so cool, he was just on cloud 9! 
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