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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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6/19 Part 3: Leaving TSI and the rest of the afternoon
It was now time to leave TSI and there was a raft approaching and a small number of folks to get on. When the raft docked the “captain” had to make a phone call and I heard him say while he was steering he heard a loud crack sound. We needed to wait for a supervisor to come over on the next raft and make sure everything was ok. I guess it was because we didn’t need to switch rafts and we didn’t sink either.
Now my original plans were us to come off TSI and find a spot to watch Festival of Fantasy parade. However our day was going very well and we were actually a little ahead on our time. It was really stinking hot and I didn’t want to just sit there baking in the sun waiting for the parade. We figured our time would be better spent back at the resort with a nice swim.
First we took the train from Frontierland to Main Street and then from there we made our way into The Emporium to do a little shopping. We browsed around. Evan kept looking at the huge monorail sets. We have the starter set but he saying he wanted to replace it as it was broken. Huh? It isn’t broken. Then I realized he was looking for a toy monorail, not the one that comes in the big box sets. Last trip we bought a monorail but it was much smaller, I think it was in like a large bin or just loose in a container. It has 4 cars attached to each other. Ours is broken as one of the clasps holding the cars together fell apart. We still have all the cars they are just not all linked together anymore. I have no clue where we bought it but we couldn’t find them in the Emporium. Oh well, maybe next time. We did both buy a T-shirt and I bought my sister’s family a pack of candy bars and there is a story there.
We left the Emporium with purchases in hand and exited the park. We decided to take a spin on the monorail. Evan loves trains and stuff so this was a slight detour but nothing major. Exiting off the monorail back at the Magic Kingdom we now trudged out to bus stop 34 and proceeded to wait for 20 minutes for the bus. We were about the 3rd family from the font so I knew we would get seats.
AHHH! How nice it was to sit down when the bus came. It is so funny isn’t it? This was one of the best bus rides I had. Evan and I were sitting in separate seats and as the bus was filling up and people began to stand in the aisles I told him to sit on my lap. He of course didn’t want to but when I explained that someone else could sit down he was OK with that. So his seat is free and the family in front of us start to bicker about who it going to sit in the seat. Or should I say NOT sit in the seat. It went something like this …
Middle age mom/daughter “Dad sit down”
Senior citizen dad “No, I’m fine”
“DAD, sit down”
“No you have the seat”
through gritted teeth “DAD, sit down!!!”
“I’m good, let her sit down” speaking of teenage granddaughter –“Her knee is worse than my back”
Rolled eyes from middle age daughter and then teenager sat down and stretched her knee out.
I was laughing and I said to the woman sounds like me and my mom. We, the group of adults all in that immediate area, just began talking. It was very pleasant. Just about life, and getting older and how Disney has changed and how travel has changed since 9/11 and how hard it is to have small children and aging parents. Nothing special but really helped pass the time. Then we all got off the bus went our merry way and we will never see each other again. Ships that pass in the night I guess, just funny.
Back at AOA if felt like a storm was approaching. You could hear thunder but I couldn’t see any lightning and it wasn’t raining. I needed gas so we drove to the Hess station to fuel up. We went inside and got some fuel for our bellies as well. We each got a soda and a snack. Evan wanted chips. Really? I have an entire unopened bag of potato chips in the room but he wanted cheese curls. Figures. I never can guess right. If I had bought him cheese curls for the car ride he would have wanted chips. So cheese curls and Gatorade for Evan and for me a Diet Dr. Pepper and soon we were back in the room.
We quickly changed into our bathing suits and went to the Little Mermaid pool but it was closed. There was no reason just a sign stating it was closed. I figured it was because of the storm or a problem with the pool. We decided to walk to the Big Blue pool to see if that was closed too. Along the way we passed a Cast Member and she told us all 3 pools were closed. I guess the storm was closer than we thought. As a side note we found out later in the trip if lightning is going cloud to cloud then everything is ok, they don’t close things but when it goes cloud to ground then thing close – how you like to the person that has to make that determination?
So what is a momma to do with no pool time??? Why take a nap of course. I fell dead asleep for about an hour. I had set my alarm as I knew I was going to zonk out. Evan sat quietly and played on his Kindle so he rested too but just didn’t fall asleep – God forbid that boy would EVER take a nap.
After I woke up I called the front desk and all pools were still closed so we took our time cleaning up and then headed back out for a night of fun at MK. Neither one of us was very hungry even though it was dinner time so I just figured we would grab something in the park later on.
Coming up next: The story of the candy bars, our night in MK
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