A special birthday, a diamond anniversary and a west coast adventure UPDATED 9/7 - Page 22 - 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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Oh wow, some great last minute updates!! How odd they sent the Photopass CD early like that.... but OK! And Club 33!!!
I sure hope you were at the dentist this morning. If not, it'll be on your mind the whole trip......
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First, hope you got in to the dentist! And that he could do a quick fix to see you through until you're back from Boston!
Second, !!! Can't believe it's working out for you to do Club 33!!!!! Can't wait for the pictures! Are you allowed to take pictures?
Just a few more hours, and you should be headed to Heathrow, so BON VOYAGE!!!
Congrats on the Club 33 Reservation! So very exciting Your itinerary looks wonderful! Safe travels and I look forward to updates in the Globetrotting Forum!!!
well I have been quite the slacker lately reading TR. I have finally found yours and all caught up, just in time for the big send off too. Have a safe and magical trip and Happy Birthday to Mark
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Just catching up again. LOVE the photos of your garden. And I'm so glad you're going to Club 33!! Glad you guys are almost ready to go. Safe travels and I'll see you soon!
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Mickey's so happy to see me back, he can barely contain himself!
Congrats on getting most of the packing done!
Congrats on getting in to Club 33 as they will make an awesome finish to your first DLR day!
Hope you are able to get your tooth repaired today!
Very cool that you got your CD of stock DL photos ahead of time! And congrats on getting into Club 33!
Hoping you are able to get in to see the dentist!
I can update on that now - I have been to the dentist, had an additional filling done with no anaesthetic (the dentist's choice, not mine - and there was no pain thankfully) as part of the tooth had sheered off. Nothing to do with me, it's something that sometimes happens with old fillings, as apparently they can expand and crack the tooth. Anyway, it's done now and we can go away without me having to worry about it!
Sorry about your tooth trouble. That's no way to begin a vacation. These aren't tooth fairies, but maybe they will bring you luck at the dentist this morning!
Almost time! So excited for you! Yippee!! You got into Club 33! Can't wait to read all about it and to see the pictures.
I can't wait and I also still can't quite believe it either!
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So the Photopass + at Disneyland is just like what WDW had before they changed to Memory Maker. Very cool! I loved our CD with the extras too! Plus I always liked getting the CD of all our photopass pictures. I was sad when they took that away.
We never got a stock CD from WDW before our trip, but maybe that was because we were in the UK...
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Did Mark end up keeping his boots? I don't remember reading anything about that.
Completely honestly? He's done nothing more to wear them in, that's why you've heard no more about them, but they are coming, so fingers crossed he's Ok with them....
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Try to get some sleep! Have a magical trip!
Hopefully we will - the hotel we're staying at tonight has good reviews....
First, hope you got in to the dentist! And that he could do a quick fix to see you through until you're back from Boston!
The funny thing is that if I couldn't have got in today, my dentist is away for three weeks in Atlanta and Miami (we were discussing it earlier) and of course that's during the 10 day period I'm back here, so otherwise I would've had to wait until we did get back from Boston, which would've been a long wait.
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Second, !!! Can't believe it's working out for you to do Club 33!!!!! Can't wait for the pictures! Are you allowed to take pictures?
I believe so, as I've seen some online. Fingers crossed...
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Just a few more hours, and you should be headed to Heathrow, so BON VOYAGE!!!
We'll be driving up in about two and a half hours or so...
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Pixies that you can get in and get your tooth fixed! 
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Your itinerary looks wonderful! Safe travels and I look forward to updates in the Globetrotting Forum!!!
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Anyway, it's done now and we can go away without me having to worry about it! 
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