2 Haunted Mansions, 1 Day (Plus Free Dining!) - Page 15 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Great tip about the cafe' vs BB. I hear/read about the infamous Monte Cristo at the BB from many sources and that it's a must-do. Sounds like the cafe' should be the must-do.
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Carrie, thanks for another great update, and I love the pictures even of The Roots! How sweet of you and Patrick to get them the Bride and Groom Ears for their Honeymoon, however that's sad no free desserts for them on their Honeymoon. I agree with you Bad Disneyland, Bad.
Sorry you missed out on the slide. 11:00 is kinda late if you ask me. And I love your pictures of the pool. DH sticking his head in Tick Tock's mouth cracked me up (mostly from the look on Tick Tock's face). I shouldn't read TRs on an empty stomach - now I really really want garlic fries!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Inside Indiana Jones & the Temple of the Forbidden Eye
View into the Jungle Cruise
The most amazing Jungle Cruise photo ever taken (sez I!)
DH asked the Roots if they could try to get pictures of one of his favorite attractions, the Primeval World from the World’s Fair, which you pass on the train. We always try to get a shot of it, but with the darkness and the moving train, our pix never turn out.
Behold, the Roots’ Primeval World!!!
This next part was one of the highlights of our day. There’s a Disneyland history exhibit in the lobby of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln that includes lots of neat old photos, props, and maquettes, and, best of all, a huge scale model of the park as it looked when Disneyland first opened. Nathan spent a good deal of time taking shots of the model from all angles, and the results are amazing.
Our last stop was a table at Rancho del Zocalo, where we all enjoyed Dole Whips and talked about our plans for their visit to us in L.A. (the pix of which I wish I could find an excuse to post here – again, amazing!).
We saw this lil’ guy...
Bye-Bye, Disneyland!
Back to harsh reality – namely, the discovery that the Zippy shuttle I’d scheduled to come get us at 4pm so we could make our surprise date at the Staples Center was mixed up and not coming til 8pm! I freaked out (but couldn’t tell DH why cuz our tickets were a surprise), the shuttle guy said they could come but it would be at least 30 minutes, we canceled them, and then we grabbed an exorbitant curbside cab.
Scene of the Fiasco
We white knuckled it all the way home, tipped the cab driver way too much, dropped our bags inside the front door, and discovered we’d won five pairs of Year of a Million Dreams mouse ears from sending in postcards every day:
In the end, we got to the Staples Center in time, and I surprised DH with a 7th-row ticket to see..... Walking With Dinosaurs: Live!
This was a big deal because when we’d gone the first time, our seats were in the nosebleeds and we couldn’t see anything. So when I learned they’d added an L.A. show on the last day of its run here and it was the day we got back from Disneyland, I went for it. I almost fell asleep a couple of times during the show from sheer exhaustion, but it was all worth it cuz DH was having such a great time!
The End!
I’ll be back shortly to bring you.....
Anniversary at Disney World: Whaddya Mean I Can’t Still Wear My Bride Ears?!!
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, now I really need to eat something for breakfast b/c I am
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Please hurry back & post the pics,please,pretty please 
I shouldn't read TRs on an empty stomach - now I really really want garlic fries! 
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