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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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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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Since I am officially on vacation, I thought I would start my TR today.
We learned that our weather forecast for Newtown Square next week looks pretty bad!! It is not supposed to get out of the 30's and there is all kinds of snow and wind predicted. Muffin is freaking out because everyone is away this week and there will be no one to shovel the snow. Here's my take. No way am I staying around or worrying about that now!!
We are also now scrapping our Wally Park plans and planning to park in the covered airport garage. I can't claim credit for that wonderful switch as Muffin, in his neuroses, thought of it.. I just hope we can find a spot in the garage as I'm sure we aren't the only ones changing our plans!
Today, we are just slugging around. We are currently binge watching Foyle's war. We love this show and are, so far, up to Season 5. We watched one episode this morning.
We also went to our go to spot for lunch today, the Fire Point Grill. It was delicious and made me feel like I am already on vacation! I had pizza and Muffin got his standard burger-no cheese or onion. I had a really nice IPA and Muffin just had water with lemon.
We put a fire on and played three games of Yahtzee!! The first two games I got my butt kicked and the last game I only won by two points!! We also made a strawberry cake with lemon icing and gave half to Muffin's parents. Then we took Lilly for a nice long walk. I am charging my Fitbit but I am guessing it was about two miles.
On the wedding front, things are coming together nicely. We have 85 guests so far and honestly if not one other person says they will come, it would be fine!!
Katie is getting very stressed out by my niece, Alex, who is in the wedding and I don't blame her!! First of all, Alex had a boyfriend at the time Katie sent the invitations out so she invited her plus one. They have since broken up and now Alex wants to bring her roommate, who is also a boy, and neither Katie nor her fiancée like him and Alex knows this. After telling me this story, I asked Katie if she wanted my opinion. ( I have learned the hard way to do this!). She said she did so I told her that she needed to tell Alex that she could bring anyone else in the world or come by herself but that she could not bring this guy. I told her to simply say ' It's my wedding.' and leave it at that. So!!
Katie did not follow my advice and then Alex did something else. She told Katie that she could not come to her bachelorette party because she bought tickets to a concert that weekend. She knew the dates well in advance and I am honestly not sure why she decided to do this.
After this incident, Katie further told me that she really didn't even want Alex to be in the wedding but that Alex had cried her way into it. Even though this makes me seethe, my daughter is a grown woman and needs to handle this stuff on her own. I told her that she really needed to have a conversation with Alex and to be honest about how she felt.
That has since come about and I think they are working things out. I hope so anyway.
Back to the rest of our day, we skipped dinner as we had a big lunch and are going back for two more episodes of Foyle's War. This has been a nice relaxing first day of vacation!
Nice to have some time to relax at home before heading to Vegas! I'm thinking a fire sounds pretty perfect. This weather.....something else! Just glad you're flying out Monday and not Tuesday!!
Sounds great to start your vacation off early at home! Your dining plans in Vegas sounds amazing!!! Reading those descriptions really makes me want to get to Vegas!
Sorry to hear about the weather forecast for Vegas as it doesn't seem promising.....and cold! I hope your daughter gets things under control with her wedding plans and her so called friend Alex. Not sure if she is that good of a friend when they pull antics like this!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Nice to have some time to relax at home before heading to Vegas! I'm thinking a fire sounds pretty perfect. This weather.....something else! Just glad you're flying out Monday and not Tuesday!!
So are we, Colleen!!
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Sounds great to start your vacation off early at home! Your dining plans in Vegas sounds amazing!!! Reading those descriptions really makes me want to get to Vegas!
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Sorry to hear about the weather forecast for Vegas as it doesn't seem promising.....and cold! I hope your daughter gets things under control with her wedding plans and her so called friend Alex. Not sure if she is that good of a friend when they pull antics like this!
Oh no, Dave! The weather forecast for Vegas looks beautiful!! It's here at home that doesn't look so good! Katie's cousin and she have always had a bit of a contentious relationship. . They'll work it out.
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Oh no, Dave! The weather forecast for Vegas looks beautiful!! It's here at home that doesn't look so good! Katie's cousin and she have always had a bit of a contentious relationship. . They'll work it out.
My fault and sorry to misread this. I didn't think there would be snow in Vegas this time of year, but the weather has been nuts to say the least! Glad it will be good for you and that you'll be flying out on Monday instead of Tuesday! Here in SW CT, we're expecting 12-18 inches of snow as of now. That's crazy as the storm is still nearly three days away! We'll see how the forecast changes over the next few days. Hope they're wrong and yet only a few weeks left of snow possibilities!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
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I've read on Facebook about the storm that's coming to the North East this week. I hope you guys get out Ok, then you can forget all about the weather at home, until you have to come back anyway...
Sorry about the wedding drama. You and Katy don't need that, but I think every wedding sadly comes with drama from somewhere - I know ours did.
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Wonderful start to the vacation! for your weather.
Thanks, Cam!
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My fault and sorry to misread this. I didn't think there would be snow in Vegas this time of year, but the weather has been nuts to say the least! Glad it will be good for you and that you'll be flying out on Monday instead of Tuesday! Here in SW CT, we're expecting 12-18 inches of snow as of now. That's crazy as the storm is still nearly three days away! We'll see how the forecast changes over the next few days. Hope they're wrong and yet only a few weeks left of snow possibilities!
I hope they are wrong too, Dave!!
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I've read on Facebook about the storm that's coming to the North East this week. I hope you guys get out Ok, then you can forget all about the weather at home, until you have to come back anyway...
Sorry about the wedding drama. You and Katy don't need that, but I think every wedding sadly comes with drama from somewhere - I know ours did.
We should get out ok. Whatever's coming isn't supposed to be until late Monday night.
You are right about wedding drama!! Our wedding had its share of it too!! Everything will be fine!!
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Here's my take. No way am I staying around or worrying about that now!!
. I just hope we can find a spot in the garage as I'm sure we aren't the only ones changing our plans!
I had pizza and Muffin got his standard burger-no cheese or onion. I had a really nice IPA and Muffin just had water with lemon.
The first two games I got my butt kicked and the last game I only won by two points!!
We also made a strawberry cake with lemon icing and gave half to Muffin's parents. Then we took Lilly for a nice long walk. I am charging my Fitbit but I am guessing it was about two miles.
I hope your daughter gets things under control with her wedding plans and her so called friend Alex. Not sure if she is that good of a friend when they pull antics like this!
. They'll work it out.
Here in SW CT, we're expecting 12-18 inches of snow as of now. That's crazy as the storm is still nearly three days away! We'll see how the forecast changes over the next few days. Hope they're wrong and yet only a few weeks left of snow possibilities! 
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