Wait!!! Wasn't this supposed to be a weekend trip? TR COMPLETE 11/2 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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The final morning finally came. I had done most of the packing the night before so all I really had to do was pack our pajamas and the stuff we needed for morning showers. With that done we headed downstairs to check-in our bags with Jet Blue, and we gave our carry-ons to Bell Services to hold until our DME pick-up.
Last day or not we were ready to enjoy our last day and we headed outside to wait for the bus to pick us up for the DVC presentation. The bus came after about a 5 minute wait and the DVC reps on the bus were great. There was about 8 of us on the bus and as soon as we were all settled they gave us some door prizes. We got these really neat notebooks and pens and a tote bag. Then they started everyone going with some trivia.
Well Angel sure knows her trivia, she won herself some pretty good prizes, she got a limited edition pin and a keychain. She was a happy girl. We made it over to Saratoga Springs and had some coffee, juice and water and then headed in to the presentation. Most of the people there were already members but there were a few "prospective members" there as well. They covered alot but really spent a lot of time talking about Aulani.
Once the presentation was completed we took a walk over to see the sample rooms. They were amazing. Jasmine already decided that we need to visit Hawaii soon. She fell in love with the sample rooms.
We then headed over for some food, they had some salads, fruit, and finger foods. They had some reps there to talk if anyone was interested in purchasing or had questions. We weren't planning to purchase any points at this time so a nice rep walked us out towards the bus stop and we waited and waited. On our last day I think we had the longest wait of the trip here. Ever other bus came just no Epcot. They even has a rep there calling...finally not one, but two Epcot buses made there way towards us.
We jumped on and relaxed in the AC, soon we were pulling up at Epcot. We headed in and stopped for a picture.
There was a very little wait for SE so we headed there first as I knew we would probably not get to the front of the park again once we headed to the WS. We then headed over to Soarin but the line was at about 90 minutes, there were FP's for 4:30 - 5:30 so I grabbed three, figured we could do this for our last ride of the day, then head right back out the IG to the BW to wait for our bus.
We headed across the park towards TT, we headed over to the SRL - Angel and I ended up in the same car, with Jasmine in the car behind us.
We had done all we wanted on this end of the park so we headed off to the WS. We stopped in the store just to browse, no purchases but Jasmine liked the Duffy Ears.
There were alot of PP photographers today in the WS, I usually always seem them on the bridge and in France but we found one in Mexico as soon as we started our WS tour.
The photographer then posed Angel for a "new" magic photo...except when I got home and got the CD - there was no magic but the photos came out cute anyway.
We then headed in to enjoy the Mexican market, Jasmine had wanted to buy something here but in the end she left empty handed. Of course our trip to Mexico would not be complete without some Angel Sombrero shots
It was really hot again today, I am glad that this humidity stayed at by for most of the trip and only really creeped up the last few days which seems to happen a lot to us so now I wonder if it is just that we are so happy to be at WDW that we ignore the heat the first portion of the trip but my the end it just finally catches up to us
We browsed in Norway for a bit before heading to one of the top things on our list this trip....exploring China and seeing the Tomb Warriors.
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