Family, friends, and a Baby!! 8 is definitely enough!! POFQ 8/11-8/15 **Updated 9/21** COMPLETE - Page 37 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Great finish, Amanda. Sorry your flight check in was so rough. Makes me not so sad that SWA isn't a participating airline. Glad to hear you were still able to get on EE though. Sounds like overall it was a great trip and fun to read about. I hope you can convince Danny to go in December!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Yea!! I finally had a chance to read your TR!!!! I made notes while I read.....
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I could have talked to them all night, but my family was waiting for me, probably wondering what the heck I was doing!! They were probably thinking " how can she know people all the way down here in FL?" LOL
And don't you love that feeling
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We hopped off the bus and made our way over to the FQ stop. It was determined that BTMRR was just not meant to be this trip. We finally made it back to FQ around 11pm and we all went our separate ways for some shut eye. . . . . .
I remember that massive downpour! It came out of nowhere!
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Yes, they are!! They are exactly the same in person as they are here - just add Southern accents . . . .
That made me laugh
I am so glad you loved tea at the GF!!!!!
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Yes, I would always get mad at people who didn't update regularly
man, you must despise me I guess the one good thing is I have accepted this flaw in my nature and am an admitted TR dragger outter...
Hello, my name is Melissa, and I can't finish TRs in a timely manner....
and we all respond "Hello Melissa"
I'm happy to see you loved 'Ohana!!!!
on the December trip!!! I hope you get Danny on board!!!!!!!!
What a great wrap-up Melissa...I am so glad that everyone enjoyed and appreciated all the hard work you put into this trip....sorry you hit such a crowded week - I think it really has become such a toos up lately. When I decided to go the last week of June / Early July my sister thought I was nuts - I think I did too for a bit but I was surprised at how well we managed the crowds and hoe by hitting the parks at the right time we really had low crowds at certain points...
Thanks for sharing your trip...I think you did a great job
Just got caught up. Great TR! I had done DL when I was 5 months pregnant and I don't think I would want to tour the parks like that again. We saw a very preggo lady on our trip she looked like she could go any moment...She was definately a trooper! I am glad you had a great time with your family & friends! Looking forward to another TR in December???
Hi Amanda! I just found your TR and read it all the way through. I'm glad you had fun at WDW with your friends and family. I enjoyed reading all about it.
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Makes me not so sad that SWA isn't a participating airline. 
Glad to hear you were still able to get on EE though. Sounds like overall it was a great trip and fun to read about. I hope you can convince Danny to go in December!
That made me laugh 
on the December trip!!! I hope you get Danny on board!!!!!!!!
Our 3 princesses LOVE the RED SOX!!!!
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