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Trains, planes and automobiles: Stuttgart🚆➡️ Munich✈️➡️ Bristol🚖

​This was the day we’d designated to celebrate Thanksgiving 🙏 with Brayden and Carlie. So Nate, Beau and I left our hotel in Stuttgart at 6:45 am 🚆 to head to Munich and catch a flight ✈️ to Bristol via Amsterdam. Security in Munich was smooth sailing so we had a ton of time to wait, but there aren’t really restaurants or anything, which is weird. What I was really worried about was our 55 mins between planes in Amsterdam. We arrived about 5 min late and it took forever to get off the plane. For whatever reason, in Amsterdam even to change planes in a different part of the airport you have to go through passport control, and the line is LONG. We’ve now done it three times…

Anyway, great news was KLM airlines knew we had a short connection so automatically sent a “fast pass” of sorts. Bad news was it was .8 miles from gate to gate plus passport control. And we had about 35 mins. 🏃‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽Somehow we made it! Whew!

So back to the real reason for the travel…When we arrived at the Air BnB, Carlie and Bub had all of the food already prepped and cooking - including a turkey! 🦃 

📣📣 Huge shout out to Carlie for the two days of prep and organizing she did. She even made rolls, cranberry sauce and apple crisp from scratch! It was an incredible meal, and I’m so thankful we got to celebrate Thanksgiving together in England. ❤️ (IDK how I didn’t get a photo of us)



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