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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.
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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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Okay, my kids are begging me to ask; When we got off the ship on Saturday, we heard that Miley Cyrus was cruising on the Transatlantic crossing and might be performing. My 12 yo dd immediately begged us to stay on as she ADORES Hannah Montana. Any sightings?
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Bruce, Chef Christine was keeping true to form with that strudel, if you stick to the French (apple = pomme, potato = pomme de terre). I am definitely jealous of that Transatlantic Menu. Pray tell, what were your selections, and what wine(s) did you enjoy with them?
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Another late morning beginning with a Teutonic sampler: Christine's Wild Mushroom Risotto. Not my first choice for a pre-breakfast snack, but if you think of it as weird oatmeal with even stranger raisins....
*Then* breakfast, and more importantly, coffee! Then back to bed for a nap until lunch.
This was a day defined mostly by what we didn't do. I didn't wake up in time to attend the lecture on the Canary Islands, we didn't see the first screening of "Meet the Robinsons" (saw it already in 3-D); we didn't let Ducky Williams teach us how to make really bad character drawings (embarrassed by that several times already); we didn't attend the Pirates in the Caribbean deck party (BT-DT); and we *sure* didn't attend the open mic "Superstar Karaoke"!
But we *could* have!
Oh, and once again I didn't like the "Pirates" dinner menus all rolled up so it took two hands just to read it. (And why are there never deck hands handy?) But how angry can one be at a menu that offers dessert items like "Walk the Triple Layered Chocolate Gangplank Cake and fall into a rich Dark Chocolate Sauce"?
Day 8 - At Sea (It's just you and me now, Wilson.)
One more day at sea, our last! One more breakfast with Christine, this time it's Halibut with Chorizo. Yeah, I thought so too, but it was really good with a nice Australian Chardonnay.
With a start like that, we just had to continue with a wine tasting, our fourth. This one was Cabernet Sauvignons, all Californians as it turned out. I discovered I knew a lot more California geography than our wine team, who hail from Chile, France, and Italy. Makes me miss Michael Jordan's talks on the eastbound Panama Canal cruise last year.
What do the Beatles, Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkle, Bread, Chubby Checkers, and Led Zepplin have in common? A musical comedian named John Charles covered all of them and a batch of hecklers in a single set tonight at Rockin' Bar D. Sorry I missed his earlier performances, he's as entertaining as anything I've seen on board.
It'll be odd getting off the ship tomorrow. This week aboard has passed quickly and most pleasantly. I'm even keeping up with my email for a change! It also means I can stop rehashing what we've eaten, as I'll finally have some shore excursions to talk about, so cheer up -- it's going to start getting fun soon!
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I am definitely jealous of that Transatlantic Menu. Pray tell, what were your selections, and what wine(s) did you enjoy with them?
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