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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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A few years ago I was driving through town and a violent storm had started. It was really to bad to see to drive so I pulled into the parking lot of my brother in laws insurance office. It is a house on the main drag converted into offices. Well I thought I would just sit there a couple minutes till the blinding rain stopped. But then the wind picked up so much that it felt like my car was being raised up in the air, scared that a tornada might be on the way- the sirens started blasting, I got out of the car and ran to the back door of the office, LOCKED, I knocked and knocked, and nobody came to the door, and I know they are in there, So wind gets worse so I go down and sort of hide in the corner of the sunken driveway that goes into the lower level garage. I figured it was the lowest spot. Then it started to HAIL like big golf ball size hail. OUCH! I had nowhere to go. Looking back I should have stayed in the car, but instead I got like 30 huge bruises all over my body, oh yeah and my brother in law and his staff --were hiding in the bathroom tub!! OUCH!
2 yrs ago while eating at friday's, my ds dropped his crayon, I leaned over to pick it up just as a waiter walked by, well his foot hit the leg of the chair causing me to fall over. the side of the chair fell on my hand and cut open my finger, their was so much blood I couldn't see where I was cut, well it was right under my knunckle, I saw stars and tried so hard not to cry but it hurt like h#%%, it wasn't broken but I couldn't bend it for weeks, it turned black blue purple. to this day 2 yrs later I still can't fully bend it and have this nice scar across my finger. ( and this happened on my left hand, and yep I'm left handed.)
When I was a teenager my mom was forever yelling at me for leaving clothes all over my floor. "You're going to trip and break something." One night I was waiting for a friend to call because we were going to the movies. My phone started ringing and I ran to get it, tripping over the pile of clothes on my floor. I heard something snap, so my mom took me to the emergency room. Luckily I didn't break anything, just had a bad sprain and had to stay off my ankle for a week. I learned my lesson and my clothes no longer end up on the floor. Now I am constantly yelling at my DH to pick his clothes up off the floor.
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these are hilarious, ok I for the record, fall up the steps all the time. and i also trip on sand in bare feet.
but my weirdest injury ever, was a paper cut in my eyeball.
while at work, a coworker had pushed off a 3 folded form off my counter, we were set up like a bank, so he just innocently pushed it off, and it went flying into my eyeball, well i had to leave work it was hurting so bad, so I went to the eye doctor, and the even the nurse said she had never seen a paper cut in anyones eye.
they put a contact bandage on it, i had cut on the cornea.
these are hilarious, ok I for the record, fall up the steps all the time. and i also trip on sand in bare feet.
but my weirdest injury ever, was a paper cut in my eyeball.
while at work, a coworker had pushed off a 3 folded form off my counter, we were set up like a bank, so he just innocently pushed it off, and it went flying into my eyeball, well i had to leave work it was hurting so bad, so I went to the eye doctor, and the even the nurse said she had never seen a paper cut in anyones eye.
they put a contact bandage on it, i had cut on the cornea.
Major ouch! And thanks a lot cause now I cant get that out of my brain and it freaks me out to have Eye injuries
I've slammed my fingers in my own car door, distractedly admiring a cute little toddler on the sidewalk; I've bent over my planning desk, then stood up quickly, forgetting there is a cabinet above and hitting the top of my head hard into the edge of the cabinet; I've broken my foot stepping backwards off the curb while mowing my lawn (well, the streets weren't in yet, so the drop off from the curb to the street level was really far).
After reading everyone's clutzy moves, it reinforces my tendency to be 'Safety Mom'. I'm always warning my kids about this danger and that, and they just roll their eyes. It is really really easy to get hurt!!
I slipped down the last four steps coming from our second floor on New Year's Eve 1999. Hosted the New Years's Eve party we were having anyway in case the world blew up with the new millenium. When it didn't, I woke up in 2000 with an incredibly sore tailbone. Spent New Years Day in the ER to find out I had fractured it. 10 days off work. Great way to start the New Year...using all my sick days at once!
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10 days off work. Great way to start the New Year...using all my sick days at once! 
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