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There are other changes as well.
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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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.
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I'm making a photo book for my boys and realized I don't have any pictures of the ice cream machine, pinocchio's pizzeria, or pluto's dog house. My boys loved these! Any ideas where I could get some? If you can direct me to a site, I could print them at home. I tried a search on PP photo archieve and didn't come up with any.
And can get you a shot of the ice cream machine in, oh say, 1 month 7 hours 14 minutes 39 seconds or 4 weekends or 31 days or 751 hours (501 waking hours) or 45,074 minutes or 2,704,478 seconds. Not that I'm counting down or anything!
I'll add them to the photo archive, too.
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Yes, I am a Disney Addict... and I'd rather be cruising!.
Oh, Lynn, I've got you beat! Michelle, I can name that tune in 16 days, 13 hours and some minutes!! So you'd have the pic after August 10th - would that suffice?
Okay, but remind me where the ice cream machine is?? I've never been on the Magic!!!
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Oh, Lynn, I've got you beat! Michelle, I can name that tune in 16 days, 13 hours and some minutes!! So you'd have the pic after August 10th - would that suffice?
Okay, but remind me where the ice cream machine is?? I've never been on the Magic!!!
Yes, but can you beat a 564 day total countdown?! We've been booked since 1/31/2007
The ice cream machine is next to Goofy's Galley, by the Mickey pool (which is the same on the Magic and Wonder)
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Yes, I am a Disney Addict... and I'd rather be cruising!.
O.K. ladies, I'm glad you're having fun with my thread and I am SO happy that I got plutos and pinocchio's pictures! PP is such an awesome board! That would be great if you can add them to the archive, Lynn, then they'd be a little bigger for me to print out.
I did find one for the actual ice cream machines, so I've got 3 out of 4. The only one I have left to find is one of the ice cream (with no one else's children in it ). I went today to make the picture book at CVS and started with my other son's book. It took me 2 and 1/2 hours, so I ran out of time to do my youngest son's book and now I have pluto's and pinocchio's to add tomorrow when I go make his!
I still need the actual ice cream for the regualr family scrapbook and I won't be getting to that before your trip, Donna. So, being you're going first, I would REALLY appreciate it if you would try to remember to take one. Just load up a cup with either vanilla or swirl flavor and snap that picture. Then, I suppose you'll be forced to eat it... and then remember to come home and send it to me in a PM! I was thinking about asking you being we've been PMing about your upcoming trip, but I didn't want to impose. As long as you offered though...
You ladies don't know how you've made my day today!
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For a fellow passporter and DCL fan, I'm willing to sacrifice my waist and hips and load up on the ice cream!!! Michelle, after all the PM's you've answered for me, I'm sorry that you hesitated to ask!! I just want to be really clear on what you'd like in the picture - the ice cream flowing into the cup? The actual cup of ice cream? All of the above? Am I close??? Let me know, and I plan to go with a nice, empty memory card in my camera, I can take whatever shots you'd like so be specific!
And thanks for giving me and Lynn a fun competetive moment!!
I just want to be really clear on what you'd like in the picture - the ice cream flowing into the cup? The actual cup of ice cream? All of the above? Am I close???
Wow, this is personalized photo service! Actually just the little cup with the ice cream in it would be fine. I'd love to have a picture of that in our scrapbook being we all enjoyed the ice cream so much. I had one every day and DH and the kids usually had at least two (and they'd go get the soda cups from the beverage station so they were BIG ice creams). I can't believe I didn't think to take pictures. On our last cruise, I didn't take much for pics in the kids clubs or the pool . This trip I did that the first day and have tons of pictures. Guess I'll have to keep taking cruises until I get it right...
Okay, I'm on it! How fun, to have an "assignment" on my cruise!!
And yes, Michelle, I definitely think that "if at first you don't succeed, TRY, TRY AGAIN" will have to be our motto where DCL is concerned!!
And in all my excitement about the cruise, I forgot to even log that we're headed to Anaheim TODAY for a Train Show at the Convention Center, and plan to hit Downtown Disney several times - oh my gosh, it ought to send us right over the edge of anticipation for the cruise! So, since we don't have a laptop, I'll be offline for a few days, but will check in - and maybe start a countdown report?? - as soon as we get back.
Have a great weekend! If you think of anything else that you need a shot of, please feel free to ask!!
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Michelle, I can name that tune in 16 days, 13 hours and some minutes!! So you'd have the pic after August 10th - would that suffice?
I've never been on the Magic!!!
PP is such an awesome board! That would be great if you can add them to the archive, Lynn, then they'd be a little bigger for me to print out.
and then remember to come home and send it to me in a PM! I was thinking about asking you being we've been PMing about your upcoming trip, but I didn't want to impose. As long as you offered though...
Michelle, after all the PM's you've answered for me, I'm sorry that you hesitated to ask!! I just want to be really clear on what you'd like in the picture - the ice cream flowing into the cup? The actual cup of ice cream? All of the above? Am I close??? Let me know, and I plan to go with a nice, empty memory card in my camera, I can take whatever shots you'd like so be specific!
. This trip I did that the first day and have tons of pictures. Guess I'll have to keep taking cruises until I get it right... 
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