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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.
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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.
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.
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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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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09-29-2002, 05:40 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bath. England
Posts: 54
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Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
Cast Members:
Ella (30)
Mark (31)
September 10th day 1
Epcot [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
After a VERY rough start to the holiday we were determined to have fun, we were up at 7:00am to get ready for our 9:15am princess breakfast in Norway.
We were out the door at 8:30 as soon as the door was opened our sunglasses steamed up and we both said aloud at the same time, it is hot out!
We caught the bus to Epcot with time to spare so we took a slow walk to Norway. Mark is facinated with the amount of frogs and lizards that seem to be everywhere, he never grew tired of stopping to look or taking pictures of them, as lizards do not natrually run around England it was percieved to be something of a novelety, we will have a full set of lizard pictures when we get home.
The princess breakfast was lovely and what was even more lovely was to see the reaction of all the children when they saw thier favourite princess. Our server was Bjorn, a lovely man with truly bad jokes, he was so surprised about us not wanting seconds saying that we should get what we paid for but our appetites were on British time.
The princesses we saw were Snow white, Jasmine, Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle. Mark was in his element being surrounded by all his favourite women.
After the breakfast we walked down to innovations and sent an email back home, after playing with all the toys we took a trip on test track, this is Mark's favourite ride he loves it, so do I but I hate the bit where the big truck comes straight out of no where, I have to close my eyes every time.
Next on to space ship earth, we were the only people around as Epcot was quiet so it seemed as though we had the whole ride to ourselves. next we stopped off at the pin station as I had brought alot of uk disney store pins to trade with people, I traded my Cinderella mood pin for the Emperors New Groove llama pin which became my favourite. Did lots of shopping at Mouse Gears and had it all sent back to hotel (I love this service) Before touring the worlds we stopped off at ice station cool where I like the watermelon drink and mark believe it of not, loves the taste of the beverly drink, he says I should try it, I did and it made me want to gag. [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
As we were on holiday for 13 more days we decided not to do everything in any one day, so we breezed through Canada but stopped of in the uk to look at all of the things we could by back home. Mark and most of the cast members had animated talks about how the rugby was going and who was top of the leauge in the football, alot of them seemed quite homesick for a decent cup of tea.
We breezed through France stopping only long enough to see if they sold any Toulouse-Lautrec prints that I don't have but no, so onward to Morocco, I in particular loved all of the nooks and crannies of morocco, we were standing next to a door close to the restaurant when it opened suddenly and Aladdin who gave me his best boyish smile and said "tell me princess have you seen Princess Jasmine amoungst your travels?" I say yes that we had breakfast with her in Norway he said "Norway, Norway, where is Norway? I laughed and said it was about 6 countries over from here, he smiled and winked and said "if you see he again tell her I am looking for her" and he went back through the door whence he came.
Next on to the American Adventure where saw the very poignant flag that was found amoungst the trade centre destruction we did not stay for the show and moved on to italy where we sat and drank coffee in the shade.
We passed by Germany and went shopping in China where we bought mark's neice and nephew gorgeous chinese outfits, next back to Norway where I found a troll that best resembeled his mother, I am going to give it to her for Christmas, by this time we were getting over-heated and hungry so we stopped off in mexico for some food at the San Angel Inn, the food was to die for. I love the theming and atmosphere of this restaurant, it is so romantic. We bought a wooden mexican statue of a bird that looked just like our Pixel as we were missing him. After Mexico we walked back to future world extremely full and getting quite tired as we are effected still by jet lag so we decided to go back to our hotel, I know alot of people will stay in any park from crack of opening until close to feel as they will get thier money worth, but we were knackered so we left at 5pm, when we got back to the hotel we freshened up and had cocktails in scat cats, then bought those free refillable drink mugs and discovered the joy of all you can drink!
In bed by 10pm completely exausted and looking foreward to the next day at the magic kingdom.
tune in for tommorrows installment of Ella and Marks "world" tour (or Oh My God! I am shocked!)
Cheers!
[img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] Ella
[ 10-02-2002, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: tikibird ]
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09-29-2002, 07:16 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Jun 2000
Posts: 9,619
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Re: Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
I'm enjoying your trip report! We saw some British visitors comparing notes with a CM working in England when we were there in August, and I thought the CM seemed very homesick in general. I am looking forward to your next report! Sheila
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09-29-2002, 07:31 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
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Originally posted by Raven:
Mark was in his element being surrounded by all his favourite women.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">LOL! My favorite line of your T/R! Looking forward to more, Ella! [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img] |
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10-05-2002, 09:55 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maine, USA
Posts: 283
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Re: Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
OK...I just read day one after day two [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img]
Maybe the rest of your report can all be posted in the same thread?
Lovely report, by the way.
I can 'hear' your lovely manner every word I read. Joy!
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10-07-2002, 11:50 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posts: 2,323
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Re: Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
You wrote:
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Mark and most of the cast members had animated talks about how the rugby was going and who was top of the leauge in the football, alot of them seemed quite homesick for a decent cup of tea.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">I agree that tea is completely different in the UK. |
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10-14-2002, 09:36 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
Posts: 17,133
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Re: Mark and Ella\'s "world" tour (or it is hot out!)
Ella our cats wait by the front door every morning in hopes of finding a tree frog on the screen. They are indoor kitties so the "garage" is their outdoors where they "hunt" the lizards and toads.
I love Toulouse-Lautrec's work as well.
Your trip report is just a joy to read.
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