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This is episode 685 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast for October 21st, 2025.

Hey everyone, welcome to the show.

It is me Lee, I'm here with Tracy.

Hello, morning.

It is currently, what time is it, 8 o'clock?

On Tuesday we arrived yesterday.

So yeah, usual thing, we left our house at 3 a., which was 10pm, Florida time. Gross. Oh, no, we got up. We left at 4 a.m. Yeah. Got to the airport about 7. Pretty decent flight, to be fair. 8 hours and 15 minutes, which was fairly decent. It was actually. Security was a breeze, went straight through there, got our bags no problem. Our good friend

Danny picked us up at the airport. Yeah. Dropped us off at surfside. Room is the room. The toilet

keeps doing, we've had this issue a few times where the system keeps filling up every like 10 minutes,

which is weird. It's loud. Yeah. As you can hear, I'm already starting with my Florida Lurgy.

God, I love the aircon.

Rooms nice, because he asked us if we were celebrating anything. And we kind of are. It was our 25th wedding anniversary back in August. Yeah. And Tracy's just graduated from her master's. Well, I haven't graduated. I've passed. You've passed. I graduate next year. It's the same thing. Hang on, I graduate next year.

There's an excuse for another trip.

Yes.

So I think we haven't mentioned this.

Tracy,

you got a merit in her, at least for now a merit. We're hoping it might actually go a bit higher. Well, it'll probably still be a merit because I can't see me jumping that many grades. Congratulations. Well done. Thank you. and then it's my 50th later this year. And then they came back with a card signed by all the staff and some free drinks vouchers. And they'd upgraded us to a Pooleview room, which was quite loud at 10 o'clock last night, I might add. It really was. But the room's surfside. It's a room. It is. The water pressure is terrible as always. Yeah.

I mean, how old is this complex? Like five years now? I think it opened just after or just before COVID. I'm quite surprised at some of the things that are not. I'm not. I'm not. Obviously they have a high table of guests. People. We headed over to City Walk last night to meet up with Hope and Danny for dinner. We did. We did.

We did.

We had a wander around city walk.

The construction of Rip Ride Rocket is crazy, by the way. Yep. I was genuinely surprised at how much airy. Like, seeing it in person is so much different than seeing the pictures online of it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what goes in there after but we met up with her oh we

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