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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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It is that time of year again. Halloween parties! My best friend Cheryl and her husband are hosting their annual one this Saturday night. I am going as a witch (making my own costume) and Kevin is going as Charlie Brown as a ghost from It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. You know how he tried to make himself a ghost and ended up with all holes? Well I am coloring black circles for the holes. So who else is going to Halloween parties the next two weekends,and are you dressing up?
I just have to say that I love that tattoo. Its awesome. I have 7 myself.
And your husband's costume sounds awesome. Im a huge Charlie Brown fan too.
As for me, no Halloween parties this year but my daughter went to a dress up meeting for her job and won best dressed. She won an MP3 Player. She was a greek goddess.
Have fun at the party. You should post pics of your costumes.
We're going to a Hallowe'en party next weekend. I'm going as a tacky Florida tourist . (Hey go with what you know, right? ) Baggy khaki capris, a horrid purple floral blouse I found at the Salvation Army, my Crocs with Disney Jibbetz, a big straw beach bag, rhinestone sunglasses, a souvenir plastic coconut drink cup, and of course a big ol 35 mm camera hanging around my neck! I'm also entering the Hallowe'en costume contest at DH's office because you have to use recycled materials to qualify -- and everything I am going to wear is either mine, or recyled/borrowed. I'm still looking for a wide brimmed straw hat and a store that's willing to refill a giant pink flamingo helium balloon to complete the ensemble....
DH is going as a soccer goalie, since he will be coming straight from a game to the party. (Pee-ewwww)
We're going to Cedar Point for Halloween. You can't dress up, against the rules. I do have an orange hoodie I'll probably wear. Have fun at your party.
Every year one the country community we live in gets together for a Halloween hayride. We load all the kids up into a cattle trailer (or 2 or 3) and take the from house to house. We live out in the country so house can be a mile or two apart. Then after all the houses that signed on have been visited, the kids come back to the start point where the parents are waiting and we have a big party with marshmallow roast and smores and tons of food. The adults don't normally dress up but this year my BFF is coming along and we are going to dress up. I am going as a midnight fairy. (My costume from last year with the addition of leggings and a black turtle neck to make it a little more family friendly.) She is going as a Steelers Fanatic. DD is Velma and BFF's DS is a baseball player.
As a side note, we have done the hayride every year but one for the last 10 years. The one year we went into town and did door to door the old fashioned way, we didn't have nearly as much fun and she got MAYBE 1/4 the goodies she gets from the hayride. And the hayride only visits at most 10 houses. We went to about 30 when we walked.
Nope, not fans of Halloween at my house. 10yo is dressing up as Pocahontas (if I get her costume done in time) and will go to a trick or treat thing at a local church for an hour, but that's it.
We have a party - but most of us don't dress up. Our party started out years and years ago as nothing more than having friends over who had kids similar ages that were unable to trick-or-treat in their own neighborhoods. So, they'd come to ours, and we'd all hang out, talk, eat, and play games.
Now, the kids take the younger ones around, and the parents sit and talk, eat, and play games.
I'm working . . . surprise its a holiday . . . I work all of them. I'm going to wear my Mouse Ears and my Scary Mickey Mickey Mouse Club T Shirt and be a dead Mouseketeer!
Our church holds a 'Trunk or Treat' where will bring our cars and vans to the parking lot and decorate them. There are prizes for the most popular. We have hot drinks and the kids parade and the get treats from everyone's cars. It can be fun as it is a party and safer because the kids do not have to go door-to-door. The boys will be costumed as Indiana Jones (I'm thinking of dressing as Dr. Henry Jones the First). Last year, they were Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. No prizes for costumes -- too political, you know!
We're going to a Hallowe'en party next weekend. I'm going as a tacky Florida tourist . (Hey go with what you know, right? ) Baggy khaki capris, a horrid purple floral blouse I found at the Salvation Army, my Crocs with Disney Jibbetz, a big straw beach bag, rhinestone sunglasses, a souvenir plastic coconut drink cup, and of course a big ol 35 mm camera hanging around my neck! I'm also entering the Hallowe'en costume contest at DH's office because you have to use recycled materials to qualify -- and everything I am going to wear is either mine, or recyled/borrowed. I'm still looking for a wide brimmed straw hat and a store that's willing to refill a giant pink flamingo helium balloon to complete the ensemble....
DH is going as a soccer goalie, since he will be coming straight from a game to the party. (Pee-ewwww)
Pictures please!! No party, no costume here. I am taking Ryan to a costume/birthday party and for trunk or treating so he will get plenty of use out of his knight costume.
We have lots of stuff coming up. This weekend, we'll go to "Ghouls at Grassmere", which is trick-or-treating at our zoo. They have lots of activities set up for the kids, including a haunted hayride.
Next Friday, our homeschool group is having a party on Halloween morning, and then that evening, my SIL has her annual Halloween Driveway Cookout (which basically means all her neighbors gather together at her driveway, roast hotdogs and marshmallows and hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters!)
We dress for everything. This year, Kelley is going as Hello Kitty, Cory decided to recycle her vampire costume from two years ago, DH is making a really cool robot costume and I'm throwing together pieces from various old costumes and going as a witch. I wanted so badly to do Madam Leota from The Haunted Mansion, but couldn't order my acrylic bubble in time.
Every year one the country community we live in gets together for a Halloween hayride. We load all the kids up into a cattle trailer (or 2 or 3) and take the from house to house.
That sounds like so much fun!
I have this dream - whenever we're able to live on our 50 acres, I dream of having a huge Halloween party for my family and friends, where we take a horse-drawn wagon out in the middle of our woods to where a huge bonfire is waiting. We have doughnuts and cider and tell scary stories (and maybe have soem surprises hiding out in the woods for the ride back!) When we get back, we have a huge Halloween feast on the patio, which is decorated with dozens and dozens of glowing jack-o-lanterns.
It's just a dream, but it's my dream and one I'm looking forward to having come true!
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) Baggy khaki capris, a horrid purple floral blouse I found at the Salvation Army, my Crocs with Disney Jibbetz, a big straw beach bag, rhinestone sunglasses, a souvenir plastic coconut drink cup, and of course a big ol 35 mm camera hanging around my neck! I'm also entering the Hallowe'en costume contest at DH's office because you have to use recycled materials to qualify -- and everything I am going to wear is either mine, or recyled/borrowed. I'm still looking for a wide brimmed straw hat and a store that's willing to refill a giant pink flamingo helium balloon to complete the ensemble.... 
You can't dress up, against the rules. I do have an orange hoodie I'll probably wear. Have fun at your party. 
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