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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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05-16-2006, 04:27 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Davidsonville, MD
Posts: 6,563
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
I personally don't understand the "invite your family on your hunnymoon" concept. But hey, that's just me.
Keep the Disney trip, tell MIL that you are already committed to a Disney trip (tell her it's nonrefundable), and let it go at that. Enjoy the wedding and the reception, go home sane, and see the photos when they get back.
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05-16-2006, 04:53 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa
Posts: 2,006
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
They are taking the family on their honeymoon??? I must be way out of date would you miss the wedding? is it on the boat too? I would tell them You feel a honeymoon is something for the couple and while you would LOVE to do a vacation with them in the future you already have one vacation paid for and you can't get it refunded. Maybe bring up a date say 18 months from the honeymoon that you could all vacation together (it could be short if you don't like them or something) If the MIL thinks you are not doing it because you can't as opposed as you don't want to maybe she will feel better about you not going? Also if they don;t want to do YOUR vacation what can they say about you not joining them on theirs. DO they get a cheaper rate if they bring friends? it just seems so weird toi me by the time my wedding was over my mither in law and I would not have survived on the same boat they would have been yelling Man Overboard as soon as we were far enough out for one of us to toss the other ha ha
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05-16-2006, 05:34 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Michigan & Florida
Posts: 1,601
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
I agree with (most) everyone else. Your Disney trip has been planned for some time and finances are committed to that, especially as neither of you wants to go. Go to the wedding and that's that.
What I don't agree with is you being stuck in the middle! Why isn't your DH speaking up and explaining this to HIS mother? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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05-16-2006, 05:51 PM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 4,748
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
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It sounds like that no matter what your decision is your MIL won't be happy. I would simply explain that you have had this trip booked and paid for and you simply do not have the money to take the cruise.
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img] You can't live your life trying to please everyone! This will be little Isabella's big trip...I wouldn't put it off!
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05-16-2006, 06:16 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: NC
Posts: 3,536
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
I would do the Disney trip also but I know how hard it will be for you to keep those plans verses the other [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img], with whatever you choose! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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05-16-2006, 06:19 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,286
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
I would explain 2 trips are not in the budget and you had this one planned long before you knew about the cruise, and hope for the best.
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05-16-2006, 06:42 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2,929
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
Thanks for all your advice! To answer a few questions:
*DD would be going with us.
*It is the Boston to Bermuda cruise. It's a smaller ship, and it's in April which means it may be rather cold out still.
*DH has told his mother that we would like to go, but the timing isn't right and we can't afford it. She is rather persistant, and will keep pressing the issue when she doesn't like what she hears. She knows she will get nowhere by pestering him, so she's putting it on me.
*We would still be attending the wedding (DH is best man), just not going on the cruise. According to MIL I am in the wedding as well, but I haven't been asked.
* To be honest I think certain people would rather we didn't go on the cruise [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. My MIL is the only one pressing the issue. It's a long story.....
Arrggghhhhh, it is so easy to lay a guilt trip on me!!!
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05-16-2006, 10:34 PM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Northern Ohio
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 4,426
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
How horrible!!!! I certainly didn't invite my family on my honeymoon!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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05-16-2006, 11:03 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
Simple: The baby is all geared up to see Mickey, and you would love it if they all wanted to come to WDW with YOU!
Also, I agree with everyone, just tell them that 2 trips is not for you this year, while thanking them for the consideration of trying to arrange it around your schedule.
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05-17-2006, 01:53 AM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
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Just tell them you can't afford the cruise because you've had this Disney trip in the works for a while now. I think Isabella will appreciate Disney more than a cruise at her tender age.
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05-17-2006, 04:56 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 13,146
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
I think you should go to WDW, I'm certain that Isabella would enjoy that much more.
On another note, I really wouldn't like other people joining us on our honeymoon. I'm looking forward to just having some nice quiet time together. Each to their own I suppose.
Karen
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05-17-2006, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Chapel Hill, NC USA
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 36,592
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
Since your MIL insists that you go.....she should pay for it if she really wants you to be there (not a loan). Tell her that. She'll change her tune if she has to fork over cash for it.
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05-17-2006, 09:29 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: northern california
Posts: 9,588
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
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Since your MIL insists that you go.....she should pay for it if she really wants you to be there (not a loan). Tell her that. She'll change her tune if she has to fork over cash for it.
[/ QUOTE ]That is what I was thinking
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05-17-2006, 02:13 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Lansdale, PA
Posts: 2,112
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Re: What to do (family/vacation dilemma)
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Since your MIL insists that you go.....she should pay for it if she really wants you to be there (not a loan). Tell her that. She'll change her tune if she has to fork over cash for it.
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Me too!! Good Luck. Since it's your DH's mother he needs to be the one to put his foot down and tell her NO!
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