"Pop-pop how does Mickey go potty?" and other life questions trip report - UPDATED 8/30 - Page 2 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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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.
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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.
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I saw them! Is that your parents house? That is SOO cool!!!
YAY! It is so much easier to show than explain. So I can do day one now! They are constantly adding. There is a long story behind it but for now let's just say that they love it and it is really cool to visit.
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Well, I finally have a chance to sit down and detail our first day. AKA TRAVEL DAY FROM HECK.
The day got off to an ok start. I had plenty of coffee, grands were here and excited.They oohed and ahhhed and wowed over their travel boxes. We were just waiting for DD to get here with her SUV to take my overflow. And there was overflow. But I can pack a car like nobody’s business. Good thing. 8 people for 10 days in a vacation villa. We should have rented a u haul. We just might next time.
Well DD gets here and we get packing in the drizzle. Plan was for the grands and dog to ride with us and DD13 to right with DD and DSIL.
Guess who got home early? DH! Of course all this time I am back and forth on the phone with my mom. She is worried about the weather and my causing a wreck. And I was not even driving. See I have some control issues in the vehicle. My DH is a really good driver ( cue Rainman) but I hate the way he drives. BECAUSE I AM NOT IN CONTROL. I could not do my usual *looks around* pop a Dr. prescribed sedative…because I have 2 children and a chowdren in the car. So mom is worried that I will freak out,startle DH and we will die in a fiery crash. Because that is how I am going to die. I am convinced. YOU RIDE WITH DH if you are skeptical. I’ll wait. *ahem*
So all eleventy hundred bags are packed, kids are settled, big travel mugs of coffee for meeee and we are off! Wait we have to get gas. ( Don’t tell anyone but I put the gas on the company CC. In all fairness I was going to meet with the owners) OK. We are off!
NO! We have to eat. ( I am thinking we can eat when we all get to Florida,but NOOO apparently you have to feed small children. And grown men.) SO we hit Zaxby’s at the exit. Then my husband’s Lasik * kicks in. Small children have to pee a lot. So do men over 45. OKAY WE ARE READY!
NOOOOOOOOOOO. The dog will not sit still and we have to put her in my daughters SUV so SHE will not be the cause of our fiery crash. We have a small car. It is a Volvo. You can fit 3 bodies in the trunk but there is not a lot of room in the car itself. When I bought it I did not expect to take 2 car seats and a large mutant puppy on a trip.
OK WE are on I-95. WOO HOO! We had 2 way radios and cell phones. My DD22 came up with a unique trucker name for herself and we had a joyful conversation for 2 miles. When her battery died. So she calls,we pull over,get a charged radio from the trunk and WE.ARE.ON.OUR.WAY.
Nope. DD22 calls and says “ Your dog is puking all over my back seat .Can we swap my son for your dog?”
SOOOOOOO we pull over at the next exit. Make the swap. The dog had a hairball. Like a centimeter of spit. But that is ok. I understand . She has a brand new vehicle ( that I am helping pay for and is in my name) So get it.
Please note at this time we have gone exactly 22 miles.We started at 10:25 it is now 11:45. But hey we are only 15 minutes behind schedule.
Then my cell phone slips UNDER.MY.SEAT. For the rest of the trip my phone stayed in bra. I was begging people to call me.
I’ll be back in a bit with more. I know you can’t wait.
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I'm just catching up to your TR.....so now I'm gonna say it......Will you adopt me?!?!? Your family sounds like a hoot! I saw all the pics and read the blog and now I wanna stay in a "cave". Your parents place looks great! Even a cave for the generator?? You are killing me and I can not wait for more....my husband is looking at me like I have finally snapped! Keep the stuff coming, if it is this good just driving I can't imagine what else will happen.. Thanks for letting me ramble ....
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