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Moving on with the current of the years.
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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 had one up, but was with mickeypath, and for some reason it wasn't working. So I took it down and have yet to put another colorful one up. But my Passporter countdown is there! I really like the black and gold Dream graphic in your signature!
will be on the cruise as a back to back aug12 and aug 16th
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Fantastic, there will be at least 3 Passporters on this cruise!! I'm wondering as we get closer if we'll get some more people to join us!!
I bet we will I think this is going to be a pretty popular cruise, with the 2 stops at Castaway Cay and the fact that it's the Dream. When I booked, we had to waitlist for the main dining seating, so it is filling up . . .
yea its gonna be a packed ship now lets hope that oil stays away from the east coast or i,ll switch to the alaska cruise
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I bet we will I think this is going to be a pretty popular cruise, with the 2 stops at Castaway Cay and the fact that it's the Dream. When I booked, we had to waitlist for the main dining seating, so it is filling up . . .
Hopefully something on the main dining will open up. My brother and his family will also be on this cruise and he just changed his main seating to be with us during second seating.
I'm hopeful that the oil will not be a problem over a year from now - although knowing that Prince William Sound is still "recovering" doesn't help my optimism!
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We're booked on this cruise too. I was amazed at how quickly it filled up. I tried to rebook it onboard in mid-December, and it had sold out at my category (9A) already by then. And now prices have gone up, so even though there was a 9B available recently to book, it would have cost me more to do so.
We're booked on this cruise too. I was amazed at how quickly it filled up. I tried to rebook it onboard in mid-December, and it had sold out at my category (9A) already by then. And now prices have gone up, so even though there was a 9B available recently to book, it would have cost me more to do so.
Wow, that is good to know!
On another note, tomorrow is the 401 day until we sail! And we are having a "smoothie" party (to celebrate being on deck drinking real Disney smoothie's on the Dream during the Sail Away Party!!)
Hi Betty and everyone else on this cruise! We will joining you and can't wait! In exactly one year from today we will be headed to Orlando! (We stay over night in the Orlando airport Hyatt) We are also hoping to add the cruise after this one for back to back cruising (fingers crossed!)
Just realizing this about 10 minutes ago has really brightened up the end of a really awful week here!
We are on this cruise too! Booked it while on the N. Europe cruise last month. And what our kids don't know is, we are doing back to back - so leaving the 16th for the 5 night, and staying on board for the next cruise which is a 4 night. That means THREE stops at Castaway Cay! And we have friends from Chicago joining us (which the kids don't know either) on the first leg. A year from today (the 15th) we'll be checking in to the Radisson at Port Canaveral.
Cannot wait to see the Dream!
Yeah!!! I can't believe that we are FINALLY under a year!! Can't wait to see you again Cayley!! and to meet Christine, Colleen and the other Passporters on board!
We have also toyed with the back to back (since it was put into my head by tigersprinkles) cruise. We have family who are going to WDW afterward, and they'd be a little ticked if we ditched them (but trust me, it has crossed my mind several times!!
BTW - this time next year we will all be on the beach at Castaway Cay!!
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