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Episode 2: If you don’t bend you’ll break

​This is one of the big weeks we’ve been planning for since this trip planning began - meeting Beau in Germany to tour the Porsche museum. For him, it was smooth sailing through the airport in St. Louis, to Charlotte and on to Germany. Our travels are a different story…

We had a flight booked out of Bristol at 6 am Sunday morning, changing plans in Amsterdam and landing in Munich at 10:55 am. And then…

Saturday

9 am- Checked into the flight and got our boarding passes ✅

2 pm - Flight cancelled 🚫 

2:15 pm - KLM Airlines rebooked us… Bristol ➡️ Cork (Ireland) ➡️ Paris ➡️ Munich at 5:30 pm 👎🏼

2 pm - 3:30 pm - Tried to contact KLM via web (where they said to change our flights and it said I had to contact them), WhatsApp, text and phone. I had my phone, Nate’s phone and my computer all working on this.📱💻📱

The options really were 1) take the crazy route they rebooked us on, 2) cancel and take an EasyJet flight direct from Bristol and not arrive until 5:30 pm, 3) rebook to fly out of Birmingham at 6 am (and get to Birmingham Saturday night after the game). We chose Birmingham in an effort to not lose a full day. 

2:59 pm - KLM WhatsApp rep said they were submitting my request to ticketing and I should hear back in 24 hours (the flight was to take off in 15 hours and we still had to get to Birmingham) 🕦

3 pm - Got in Uber in Bristol with Carlie to go to Bub’s football game, finally got in touch with a person on the phone in customer service who rebooked us through Birmingham. 

3:30 pm - Booked hotel in Birmingham 🏨

4:30 pm - Booked train tickets from Bristol to Birmingham leaving at 8:33 pm 🚆

6:15 pm - Football game ended in a win! Took photos, called Uber and went back to Bristol hotel. 🏈📸🚗

7-8 pm - Repacked, left hotel, walked to train station, finally ate something. 🥪

8:33 pm - Train from Bristol to Birmingham Center 🚆

9:55 pm - Transfer to train to airport 🚆

Note: There were a zillion people on the train who were all so loud. It was a lot. 🧍🏽🧍‍♀️🧍🧍🏾‍♀️🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏾🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏾🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏾🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏼‍♀️

11 pm - Arrived at airport train station, got in hotel shuttle 

11:30 pm - Checked into hotel in Birmingham 🏨

Sunday

3:30 am - Wake up alarm ⏰

4 am - Taxi to airport 🚕

4:38 am - Made it through security!

5:40 am - Board the plane to Amsterdam ✈️

6 am - Notification we were taking off 5 mins early 🎉

6:10 am - Notification we would be delayed up to 90 minutes due to snow in Amsterdam (see said snow below) 👎🏼❄️

6:30 am - Notification we were cleared to push back in 5 mins 🎉

6:48 am - Take off from Birmingham to Amsterdam ✈️

8:30 am - Landed in Amsterdam (1 hour ahead of the UK) 🇳🇱, next flight is delayed

8:45 am - Beau landed in Germany 🇩🇪 

10:10 am - Boarded the plane and taxied to the runway to take off

10:35 am - I can’t make this stuff up. We’re next to take off and the pilot comes on the intercom and says we’re delayed “a few more minutes” because the plane that took off in front of us hit a bird and now they have to inspect the runway 🐦‍⬛🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

11:30 am - We landed! It’s an absolute miracle that we all made it to Munich relatively on time. 

Noon - Just outside of the airport doors was a Christmas market with hot mojitos - yum! 🍵

12:30 pm - The train from the airport to city center is closed for maintenance. . . We had to find the bus and take a bus for 20 mins to a train station. The the train (35 min) took us to the city center. 

3:30 - We’re finally checked into the hotel, Beau has showered and we’re headed for food. What a travel day!





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