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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Wow, Karen, thanks for the Boma pics! I gotta say, though, that the buffet does look a little exotic... Being the picky eater that I am, I think I better not take my chances with that one
I am so glad this thread was started! After all, it really is true that "A picture says more than 1,000 words"!
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My goal was to take pictures of every meal we had, well that did not exactly happen, trying to get two kids fed, it is easy to forget to take pictures, but I do have a few.
Our first day we ate at Intermission food Court for lunch, the food was pretty good, better than the reviews we had read before going.
The second day we ate at Toy Story Pizza Planet and all had pizzas and salads and rice krispie treats, very good, would do that again. Sorry, no pictures of that meal. Our evening meal was at Raglan Road: The appitizers we had were drunk chicken and seared beef salad, the appitizers were delicous the salad is big enough for a meal and the steak was tender on it. We just forgot to take pictures, of the appitizers, sorry.
But we do have pictures of our main course:
Here are some Raglan Road Pictures more to come later!
Pan Fried Lemon Sole
It's Not Bleddin Chowder
Kid's Gold'n Chicken
Salmon of Knowledge
Apple Tart
Dunbrody Kiss the best dessert I had the whole trip
Kids ice cream with butterscotch sauce
Strawberry Cream dessert (Mom ordered it not sure exactly what it is called)
More pictures later. Slowly figuring out how to post pictures
This is our third and fourth day meals.
Third day we ate lunch at Pizzafari, which was pretty good. Our Table Service that night was Coral Reef. I would do this again in a heart beat. They seated us right in front of the aquarium, and I had a diver come down with a sign that said "Happy Anniversary Stephen and Melissa." My family was so surprised they all loved it. These pictures are from Coral Reef.
Shrimp Pasta at Coral Reef
New York Strip (which three people in our party had and they all said it was the best steak they had ever had)
The fourth day we ate breakfast at Hollywood and Vine, it is a breakfast buffet with pasteries, eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit and Mickey waffles. Jojo, Goliath, June and Leo were all there. My three year old loved it. Sorry no pictures of the food.
That day at lunch we ate at Starring Rolls cafe, the sandwiches are huge and the desserts look wonderful. Again sorry, no pictures of that place either.
The fourth night we ate at Crystal Palace buffet. It was pretty good, would do it again, because the kids loved it. The salad bar was great and they have fixins for PBJ. Also the Shrimp and Prime Rib were good too.
Here is a picture of the heart the CM had on our table before we sat down at Crystal Palace.
Friday September 7 we ate lunch at Flame Tree Barbeque. Sorry no pictures, but the fruit plate is wonderful and so are the ribs. We ordered a side order of onion rings and they were wonderful too.
For Dinner we went to the Spirit of Aloha Show. We enjoyed that a bunch. We loved the ribs, rice, vegtables, and salad and the dessert. Both my kids were enthralled with the dancers and the fire entertainer. They loved also being able to get PB&J. We also enjoyed the beer and wine. It was one of our best evenings.
The platter they serve you family style at the Spirit of Aloha Show. Rice, vegtables, ribs and chicken.
The ribs, my husband loved, which is a huge compliment escpecially for a native Texan to say!
The 6th day, we went to Epcot and had lunch at Sunshine Seasons, sorry no pictures of lunch. The salmon was pretty good and I enjoyed getting to pick my dessert from the case there.
We had dinner at Rose and Crown, no pictures of main meals, but that is where we had the speciality cake delivered and we have a picture of that.
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Karen, thanks for all of your photos! You are my inspiration! However, I am not sure that is for eating or taking photos! 
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