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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.
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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.
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Doesn't POTC in WDW have skeletons at the very beginning, too?
Nice of Karen to save your parade seats so you could get in a ride or two!
Oh gosh, now you've got me wondering. I honestly cannot remember, as I can only remember the Disneyland version. Hmm.... maybe time to go on to YouTube and see if I can find a video to remind me?
Doesn't POTC in WDW have skeletons at the very beginning, too?
Nice of Karen to save your parade seats so you could get in a ride or two!
There are skeletons at the beginning of POTC. You see them on the left side at the same time you hear "Dead men tell no tales." And then comes the ship with a skeleton at the helm. Then the drop.
Finally caught up with this. I'm glad your visit with your parents coincided with my cruise meaning I had less to catch up on. $99 for a shirt! Yikes!!!
There are skeletons at the beginning of POTC. You see them on the left side at the same time you hear "Dead men tell no tales." And then comes the ship with a skeleton at the helm. Then the drop.
Now you say it, it rings bells with me... typical.
There are skeletons at the beginning of POTC. You see them on the left side at the same time you hear "Dead men tell no tales." And then comes the ship with a skeleton at the helm. Then the drop.
Thanks, Donna! I thought so, but then started second guessing myself!
Wednesday 9 September – part eleven: the “conscientious objector” to standing
When we came out, the sun was casting some beautiful light over the park…
We made our way over to Tomorrowland, saying goodbye to Sharon who was off to get a corn dog each for her and Karen from somewhere in Frontierland.
We headed inside the Star Tours shop, so Mark could get the T-shirt he wanted in an adult size, and I managed to get a male and female Ewok toy, although they still weren’t as cute as the ones we managed to leave behind in Walt Disney World in March…
We made our way back to Karen….
It was now about 7:20pm, and just about every space was taken for the parade. I really wasn’t convinced she’d have been able to keep our spaces, but she had done a sterling job, and Karen, Sharon and I were all able to sit on the kerb. Basically if you’re not on that front row, then tough, you have to stand, which suits Mark fine, as he’d prefer to do that.
There was one guy though who was what Karen called a “conscientious objector” to standing. In fairness, the Cast Members were asking them to stand about 20 minutes before the parade came through, so I could understand his frustration, as I’d be annoyed as well. Karen explained though that they want to bunch people up to squeeze more people in. In fact, one Cast Member squeezed two people in literally about five minutes before the parade started, which we felt was really unfair. It’s like saying it’s Ok to turn up at the last minute, and tough on all those of us who’ve waited a long time to see the parade.
There was only one issue with the spot Karen had picked. At one point, she found a cockroach scuttling along the ground, and a Cast Member appeared very unflapped by that, telling her they lived in the drain on which we were sitting!
Sharon actually came back after us, and we were getting worried about her, given that she’d only gone for corn dogs. I think Karen enjoyed hers!
A few minutes beforehand, a Photopass photographer came through and we grabbed him:
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Good tag-teaming to keep that choice spot!
Those pictures are so cute! I love the sign you got to hold - and the borders!!
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I honestly cannot remember, as I can only remember the Disneyland version. Hmm.... maybe time to go on to YouTube and see if I can find a video to remind me?
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