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My First Vacation Trip

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Over the summer, my family and I flew to Europe. Here is my crazy misadventure... Two days after school ended, we packed our bags and left for the airport. I was super excited to start this trip! We got on the plane, and our flight was 9 hours long (We also flew British Airways). That means I watched a lot of movies during the flight. When we arrived in London for our layover, the pilot said that we might be on the runway for a while. So 30 minutes later, he sent buses to come pick us up and take us to the terminal. Once we arrived at the terminal, the airport was packed. I had no idea what was happening, and neither did my family. We sat down somewhere in the airport clueless on what to do. We asked everybody what was happening and they either said, they can’t tell us or they don’t know. So my dad and I went downstairs to stand in a line that we thought would help us. One hour later, me and my dad got to the front of the line and we got no information. We went back upstairs to meet my mom and sister. Then we all thought, we might never see our checked bags again. At this point we didn’t know what to do. Later we found out there was a line to get out of the airport so we got in that line and stood in the line for 3 hours. Once we got to the front of the line, they took us down an elevator to go through British customs. We stood in that line for 4 hours. Once we got past customs, we went to baggage claim where we didn’t find our bags, so we talked to a lot of people trying to
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