Thanksgiving Break Essay

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Last year over Thanksgiving break, my family and I went to Austria. I had never been to a European country before, so I was really excited. The day we left started as any other normal day, we woke up at a reasonable time and ate breakfast. We drove to the airport, and everything seemed fine until security had to check my mom which felt like it took forever. Once we finally got through security, we were ready to board the plane, and this plane was so big! The plane ride was nine hours which was so long, but we could watch a lot of movies and eat really good meals while we were on it. As soon as we landed in Austria, I felt like the whole world had changed. People spoke different languages and it was so much colder that it was in South Carolina. …show more content…

We were leaving our hotel on a cold and gloomy morning to go get breakfast. I ran down the stairs to the lobby to get my food because I was super hungry. When I ran into the breakfast room, I was a little disturbed by the weird looking eggs and fruit, but I ate it anyway and we were quickly on our way to the train station We boarded the train, and it was the nicest train I have ever seen. I slept the whole way to Salzburg. Once we got there, it started to snow and I was really excited. My family and I ran to our new hotel, and dressed into our winter clothes very quickly. We walked down to the main center where all of the Christmas markets were, and there was a famous stuffed animal store named Steiff. We walked through the markets for hours because there were so many different and amazing things there. The markets were full of nutcrackers, snow globes, gingerbread cookies, and more. We eventually were worn out, so we started heading back to our hotel. There was a bridge that we had to walk over to get back into the city, and many people had put locks and sparkling lights on it which made it very beautiful. We went to sleep that night, and I was so excited to another day there. My family and I did many other fun thing, such as, Sound of Music Tour, tour big castles, visit the Spanish Riding School, and walk through the Christmas markets every night. I had so much fun on this trip, and I hope I can go again

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