After many trips to Epic Universe, I have definitely been able to see the patterns that have emerged during the day. This park is still having plenty of issues. Rides being delayed, rides being closed for extended periods of time, and susceptible to bad weather. My last trip to Epic included all of those. They have adjusted their hours from 10 AM-9 PM from the original closing at 10. Losing that one extra hour in the evening hurts as this is a nighttime park, and this is al

The Strategy of Epic Universe Epic Universe has some issues in operations and a complete lack of capacity has lines far exceeding what any one should wait for a Carousel or even a pizza. If you have an upcoming trip, and you have no express. Don’t worry about it. You can still have an amazing day at Epic Universe, you can try different food offerings, watch some shows, and even ride all the rides without a crazy pace. You don’t even need early park admission or express passes

Best Harry Potter Attractions While I was waiting in line for two and a half hours for Hagrid’s Motorbike Adventure, I though to myself. This is easily the best Harry Potter ride that Universal has ever made, and I think it is almost unquestioned at this point. I wonder how do the others stack up. So over the next week or two, I had friends come into town and we rode Forbidden Journey, Flight of the Hippogriff, the Hogwarts Express, Gringotts, and the Battle at the Ministry.

The Food on the Disney Wish The Disney Wish is a part of the newest fleet subset on Disney Cruise Line. This brings more dining options to Disney Cruise Lines and new menu items that are delicious. I was able to go to every included restaurant, tried some DCL staples and ate as much as I could on my six nights on this ship. The Good The filet mignon at 1923 was one of the best items on the cruise ship. It didn’t taste completely mass produced and had a good flavor. The churro

Steakhouse 71 Review Walt Disney World is home to some great restaurants. Being a pack your lunch family for park days while growing up, we never ate at these restaurants. I didn’t realize how many I missed until I actually started dining out there. There were some incredibly themed, and some very good meals just hiding under my nose while I ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or ate at Cosmic Ray’s for a cheeseburger. The restaurant that really changed my view on Disney r

The Cycle of Orlando Theme Park Restaurants Disney World is full of restaurants from the interior of Cinderella Castle to the bottom floor of the Animal Kingdom Lodge. These restaurants have a huge range of quality but a few of my favorites has been taking the same cycle. A fairly repeatable cycle that I have seen in my few years of dining at Disney World. The first restaurant that comes to my mind is the Grand Floridian Café. This was my family’s first try into the world o

Disney Wish Main Dining Restaurants Ranked I have now been on the Disney Wish twice with two small weekend cruises. I have eaten at all of their restaurants more than once and I feel like a ranking is possible. With Disney Cruise Line, they deploy a unique dining experience called rotational dining where your table and your servers rotate between a set of three main dining rooms. On the Wish there are Arendelle, 1923, and Worlds of Marvel. They offer three different experie

My newest hobby is coming with a large price tag. I have just dove into this process for a month and I am inundated with buying decisions. An IRONMAN is something that has never been on my radar, I might add a marathon was never on my radar either until my brother gifted it to me for my birthday. Just so he wouldn’t have to train and do it alone while his wife was pregnant. I never thought I would have loved the training so much. I was the guy to skip the “optional” basketba

How Is MY resolution so far? I love a good new year’s resolution. In 2025 I made around five or ten new resolutions to take into the new year. It ranged from locking in my fitness to playing piano, learning how to market my business daily, improving in chess, budgeting monthly, and learning how to play golf. I tried to insert all of these habits the first of the year and I figured I could hit those easily. As you probably guessed, all of these habits had different levels of s

Not many things gave me as much satisfaction as running a marathon at the beginning of 2025. I even got emotional, after all of that hard work, I was down to the last half mile with my family beside me running. There was also just something about improving in something. I started out struggling to finish three miles but in six months I was able to push myself across the finish line of a 26.2 mile race. Having that goal pushed me to wake up early to get my long runs in. Stay u

2024 vs 2025 I can’t believe I am entering 2026 now. It seemed like it was 2016 just a few weeks ago, and now. That is a decade. We are closer to 2050 than 2000 and it just makes me feel icky. The last two years have flown by. 2025 especially has been going at an incredible pace where I had to remind myself to grab my seat before the ride ended. 2024 was one of the most developmental years of my life. In the beginning of 2024, I ballooned up to my heaviest weight of my l

Is Epic Universe Worth the Money I have been to the newest theme park at Universal Orlando Resort over five times now. Some as an invited team member preview and some as a normal guest. This has been the first major Orlando theme park in over 25 years. Safe to say there was some hype surrounding this new theme park, especially in the parkhead communities that I am involved in. I was watching this place get built little by little. From patents being filed to the first dirt b

Preparing for the Disney Wish My first cruise of 2026 was a last-minute booking on the Disney Wish out of Port Canaveral. Booked one month prior to the sailing date, I couldn’t believe there was availability on this three-night sailing. The last cruises I went on in 2025 were on the Liberty of the Seas and the Disney Magic. Two great cruises but on the older side. This will be a jump back into the 2020’s cruise ship style, and on a Disney cruise! I am taking my beautiful fian

The Holiday Season in Business I have gotten away from this blog as of late, after a few vacations, finals week for school, catching up at work, and many other responsibilities this venture has fallen far down the list. Let’s catch up on time put in. The last time I checked it was 11/16-11/22. During the week of 11/23-11/29 I put in a total of three hours. Missing my goal by a wide margin, and not improving tiktoks or anything like that. During the week of 11/30-12/6 I pu

The Goals of 2026 A new year is always a great time to feel fresh and ready for a new start. Many people start New Year’s Resolutions and if you are like me, add a dozen more resolutions and try to solve every problem all at once. Using the new year as an excuse to make the changes I am looking for in my life. 2024 was one of the best years of my life. It was one of the most productive years of my life where I found out what I liked to do, I trained for a marathon, I maxed

Epic Universe I have now gone to the newest park at Universal Orlando Resort for the sixth time since it has been open. I have seen it in many different forms of itself. The first time I went, I was only able to ride two rides, while all of the others were shut down for technical issues when it was time to ride them. I have tried many food options, I have ridden every ride, and I have been able to get a fully realized picture of how this park is. I am extremely blessed to b

The Vacations of 2025 I have been lucky enough to be able to travel a few different places this year. I just got off my final trip, which was a ski trip, so now… It is time to rank my vacations on the year. Coming in last was a three-night trip to Sandals Nassau. This was an all-inclusive vacation and was just a worse cruise with less activities. I have been on several cruises in the last few years and my love for it as grown and grown. This was my first all-inclusive exp

In a Slump Over the entire month of November and even spilling into December I have been in a slump. My energy levels have been extremely low, no motivation, brain fog, and just a lack of production. It has been showing in almost every facet of my life. My work, this project, my exercise, my hobbies, my diet, cleaning up the house, my finances and my relationship have been in a small slump of complacency. Even anxiety has once again started to show its ugly head. In a slump t

Phone Addiction When I got my first cell phone in seventh grade, it was something that became attached to my hip from the very start. I would send hundreds of text messages a day, and it would always be close by. This phone was the LG ENV Touch, and extremely basic compared to the supercomputer that we have access to today. I used that phone for texting, calling, and basic internet searches. The IPOD Touch was much better than the LG ENV at going on the internet. Fifteen

Liberty of the Seas Review The Liberty of the Seas launched in 2007 as a Freedom-Class ship. This was before the mega ships of the Oasis class, and definitely before the Icon class. I just went on the Disney Magic a month before this ship, so it was fun to see the difference between a 20-year-old Disney ship, and a 20-year-old Royal Caribbean ship. Embarkation We went on a weekend cruise out of Lauderdale in