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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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After lunch, we headed over to the Shamu Stadium side of the park. There were some pennies we wanted to collect and Abby wanted to go to the underwater viewing area.
We finally found the pennies but when we found the underwater viewing area, it was closed off due to construction. None of us were happy about that but there’s nothing you can do so I convinced Abby that we should go to the Wild Arctic exhibit instead. She didn’t want to but we went anyway. We got in the "walking" line instead of the "ride" line because I didn’t think I would be able to handle it. It’s actually a good thing we did because first of all, we had no wait whatsoever, we could walk right into the movie and secondly, even sitting on stationary seats the movie made me dizzy . The movie was only about 5 minutes but it was inside and we sat on cold metal benches. I don’t know what the temperature was at that time but the heat was taking it’s toll on us and every bit of cold we could find we enjoyed. We spent a while in here looking at all of the animals and taking some more pictures.
When we emerged into where else but a gift shop, we found one of the 2 pressed penny machines that was suppose to be there. Lenny asked an employee about the second one and he was told there was only the one. We weren’t overly surprised as the only list I could find for the pennies was dated back in 2009 and we know things change .
From Wild Arctic, Abby said she wanted to go to the Dolphin Nursery. Since we were done on the Shamu side of the park, we headed back that way and both Lenny and I noticed Abby starting to drag her feet. As soon as we got to the Dolphin nursery, Lenny got up and let Abby sit on the scooter for a while and we made sure to use our wet cloth on her and make her drink some water. What’s funny though about the dolphin nursery is the last time I was at Sea World, that was the only dolphin tank they had and to see it with a covering and a fence around it so you couldn’t get close to the dolphins was just strange. I still have pictures of my brother leaning over the side of the tank to either feed or touch one of the dolphins. But things grow and this and the "new" Shamu Stadium were the only two things I recognized in the entire park.
In this tank that day, there were actually 7 dolphins. 2 mothers with their calves, 1 pregnant dolphin and 2 companion dolphins. There was an employee there giving some interesting information about them. She told me (because I mentioned it being the old tank) that the reason why it was now the dolphin nursery and fenced off is to give the mother and calf a really good chance to bond and "just be dolphins." They’re living in a tank instead of the ocean so I’m not sure if that’s entirely possible but hey, who am I to say differently. She also said they would stay there for up to I believe 18 months (I know it’s at least one year) but she never said where they go after that.
After watching the dolphins and listening to the employee for a little while, we decided it was time to get Abby somewhere else so we headed over to the regular dolphin area. We stopped for a nice cold drink for a few minutes - a lemonade this time - and sat at a table that had a covering. I’m pretty sure there was a ceiling fan too as after a few minutes of sitting there, Abby was looking and acting better. We stopped at the sting ray lagoon for a few minutes and even got some more pennies but Abby didn’t want to try and touch the rays.
Afterwards, we headed to the dolphins. It was too late in the day to try and feed them but we could still go and try to touch them. It took a few minutes before Abby or I could even get close to the wall but once we did, it was amazing to see how many dolphins there were there. One finally approached and Abby didn’t want to touch it at first but I finally got her to try it. All the while, everyone else was trying to touch them too. It was kind of a mad house but once Abby was able to touch the dolphin, she enjoyed it.
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about that but there’s nothing you can do so I convinced Abby that we should go to the Wild Arctic exhibit instead. She didn’t want to but we went anyway. We got in the "walking" line instead of the "ride" line because I didn’t think I would be able to handle it. It’s actually a good thing we did because first of all, we had no wait whatsoever, we could walk right into the movie and secondly, even sitting on stationary seats the movie made me dizzy 
. The movie was only about 5 minutes but it was inside and we sat on cold metal benches. I don’t know what the temperature was at that time but the heat was taking it’s toll on us and every bit of cold we could find we enjoyed. We spent a while in here looking at all of the animals and taking some more pictures. 
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They’re living in a tank instead of the ocean so I’m not sure if that’s entirely possible but hey, who am I to say differently. She also said they would stay there for up to I believe 18 months (I know it’s at least one year) but she never said where they go after that.
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