Flying Lufthansa Business Class To Austria

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Yes okay long travel day ahead Uber ride to the airport fly to Frankfurt Frankfurt to salsburg salsburg I have to take a bus to the train station I have to go salsburg to spall is what it’s called and I have to get a bus up to this place called Alpine it’s today the day for a little first class action maybe all right so first time flying business class actually aside from when I flew to Hawaii for the white lus uh this is my first time paying for business class all right there was that weird

Alarm that went off for about 30 minutes anyways flu lonza is that how you say it uh the cubby was pretty big full lay down seat uh champagne didn’t have that just premium first class service baby business class service started rolling the flight was pretty long which is why

I decided to buy the ticket I’m like dude I want to lay down 6 and 1/2 hours till we’re there little white tablecloth I got an appetizer on treay watched plenty of movies and I got dessert we had shrimp and then I had this beef fillet and then I had some Dolce dele

Overall experience was great worth every penny I guess business class is the way to go we’re about hour and a half in the flight had about seven soda Waters the whole point of business class or first class is to be more comfortable and like get some sleep but I don’t know I’m so

Chilled out but I almost don’t want to really fall asleep I just want to enjoy it watch movies maybe get a little work done relax I figured I was like you know what I worked hard this year I want to show up well rested even though I didn’t

Sleep at all on the flight I just want to feel good usually I get Gnarly back cramps so I was like you know what it let’s do it business class it is great experience got about an hour and a half Left all righty New York to Frankfurt like complete now I got a connecting flight to salsburg then the Train oh yeah Now last plane ride today bro I’m I’m jet lag Jerry right now bro a 38 minute flight but I was falling Asleep got like an hour till I get on this train bro exhausted but we’re still taking the stairs no matter what always take the stairs on R station by Uh wow look at that how are you just checking in Alec Merino okay yes dude you know just after like a gnarly travel day or like when you start the travel day you’re like I can’t believe I’m about to embark on this absolute insane travel day right now and

All you’re thinking about is arriving to your hotel and doing this oh my God bro we made it holy I had a run planned that was on the sketch I think it was like an hour but I was like oh I’ll see when I get there

And it’s not even that like I don’t want to run or I don’t feel like I can run but I’m like so mentally exhausted in the past 36 hours I haven’t got I didn’t sleep at all on the plane and then I was just fried on the train anyways the

Whole point of this long story or explanation is I’m like all right running is just going to screw me because then I’m just my body’s going to be trying to catch up and I’ve done this game before you’re like oh I’ll just push it I’ll get the run in and then

Your body’s just trying to play katchup the whole week trying to recover so I’m like at at least get outside go walk get some food and then it’s like 4:30 here get in bed early wake up and I guess go run this come on perfect attire Definitely not proper uh snow attire but whatever why did I even fly all the way over here let’s see 2016 17 wow this whole story starts 8 years ago when I decided to travel to Southeast Asia I’m sure most of you know this yeah I did this big solo backpacking trip to Southeast Asia where I saw North and South Thailand Cambodia Lao and Vietnam and it was on that trip that I met who’s today one of my best friends now Josh we

Met about I would say 5 weeks into the trip we just hit it off and we ended up traveling the rest of the time together when we parted ways I remember I was in Northern Vietnam and I ran out of time I had to get back I had to go to to school

I was still in college at this point and I remember our parting was it was bittersweet when Josh and I were traveling I had just started this YouTube channel and I was posting travel Vlogs and Josh being the being the guy he is was like so supportive of it he’s

Like bro like your videos are sick and he was always telling people like go subscribe to Alex Channel subscribe and I guess this continued when I left him and he was telling people go subscribe through like Vietnam and and Lao and one of those people that he told was a girl

Named Gabriella and then listen to this so at the end sorry I’m kind of going all over the place at the end of our time in Bali again Josh and I had to part ways this time he had to leave and I was like I’m going to stay for like another week

Um I’m even confused on what I’m even saying yes I’m back home I’m trying to edit this video oh my God this is painful watching this let me just recap like where are we at right now I go on a backpacking trip I meet Josh in Thailand

I go off I do la on my own I come back I do Cambodia with Josh and I do all of Vietnam with Josh Josh and I work our way up Vietnam I have to go back home because I have to go back to college however Josh stays 2 days later in

Vietnam is when Josh meets Gabriella they become friends that’s that fast forward another year I don’t know why I’m telling you guys this doesn’t really have to do with any part of the story other than when Josh and I travel to Bali the following year toward the end

Of the trip is when Josh and I are parting ways I’m on my own I’m in a hostel I meet Gabriella Gabriella told me this when I was in Austria this like when they were getting married so this is like a week ago she goes just so you

Know I watched your there was one video in particular she goes I watched that chicken run Yeezys beer whatever video I have some video posted she goes I watched that like a hundred times and she told her friend that she was with at the time she goes I’m going to marry

This guy speaking about Josh so she goes I loved your YouTube channel because it was a way for me to just like watch you and Josh particularly Josh she like fully manifested it The Story Goes basically like she she’s in Bali I’m in Bali we didn’t know that we were both in

Bali at the same time but she said she goes I just picked this random hostle and then like I heard you she said she heard my voice and she’s like God that sounds so familiar and then I was out in like the common area and that’s when she

Uh she walked up and that’s when Gabrielle and I met for the first time but I didn’t really know who Gabriella was because I didn’t know Josh and her were just friends I didn’t know like they were going to have some love interest but anyways you guys following

Along here because if you are then I can continue on with this story Josh and Gabriella spark a friendship up which in turn becomes a romantic connection because Josh goes out to Vienna to visit Gabriella which blossom into a relationship of 5 years a long-distance relationship at that where they really had to work hard Josh went through University in the UK while was

Dating Gabriella while she was still living and working in Vienna but they made it work and um that’s why I was there that’s why I flew out to Austria is to witness one of my best friends Josh who I absolutely love just will always be it’s one of those friendships

That it doesn’t matter how many years Josh and I spend apart that guy and I just truly pick up right where we left off um no like no time has passed everything the jokes are just as funny as they were five six 7 years ago and he married someone Gabriella I am telling

You wow one of the most kind caring like Heart of Gold people I have ever met in my entire life and I could not be more stoked for those two the wedding was amazing really was it was it uh it was so fun it was a smaller wedding but

We’re in this mountain in Austria it’s snowing it’s cold it’s just like wow intimate it was emotional and funny there was dancing it went to like 5:00 a.m. we’re in these Chalets in the mountain of Austria in this place called the AL like maybe I’ll get married there

One time when I meet my wife I don’t know yeah what an amazing time this is definitely a different video but I was like I got to share why I’m even in Austria in the first place and I want to say uh I I don’t know if I’ve talked

About this a lot but I will say that you know life is pretty crazy I think sometimes we think life is moving slow or you’re like what’s going to happen like what’s going on and I’ve always said life is moving at a blistering Pace because everything that’s happening

Every person we meet every door that closes everything that doesn’t go one way that we wanted to is always setting us up for something even better to happen so I think about that with Josh I think about all the things that didn’t happen leading up to Josh and I meeting

Like you know I wasn’t planning on backpacking solo it just happened that way Josh traveling wasn’t really supposed to happen you know J was involved in a really bad uh biking accident couldn’t stay in the military which is why he even went traveling in the first place and it’s just really

Interesting because it’s like Josh being in a biking accident uh is a door that closed that he was probably really bummed about but then it’s like the universe is setting him up it’s like no you need to be in Asia to meet your future wife things like that so just

Always remember that anytime a door closes trust me there’s going to be a better one that opens in the future that’s kind of the feeling I have every time I’m traveling abroad or every time I’m around Josh and Gabriella as I remember like wow these friends came

From uh putting yourself out there it comes from being uncomfortable and you never know where life is going to lead you so just always be open to you know knowing that when one door closes you’re on the brink of another door opening is that the right word yeah Josh and

Gabrielle if you’re watching this congrats is just like an understatement of words of how excited I am for you guys um truly what an amazing trip okay is you don’t marry someone you can live with you marry a person you can’t live without and that sums up my feelings towards Gabriella perfectly

Wake up I think I got something to say to you woo I know I keep you