The joys of travel arranging

Traveling with a group is like herding cats.  Traveling internationally with a group is--words fail me.  Stressful springs to mind.

Guess I just have to tackle one piece at a time.  Got an e-mail from Delta at midnight last night saying that they had changed my reservation to Heathrow and I now had a 50-minute layover in Detroit because the flight from Detroit to Heathrow had been moved up.  Right, what planet are they on?  No way I would have made that connection.

Called first thing this morning because I'm traveling on a frequent flyer ticket and those seats are so limited.  Didn't succeed in talking them into putting me on the nonstop from Minneapolis (4X the miles I paid), but got an earlier flight from Minneapolis to Detroit so I won't miss my international connection.  The upside of this is the flight to Heathrow now has the flat bed seats which the previous flight didn't.  So now I can sleep on my way over.  Still on the nonstop on the flight back.  Assume they won't change that as that flight already has the flat bed seats.  Although there's the never assume rule.

Got the very last room available at the hotel we've been looking at in London, so that's good.  Now need to find a car service to Southampton.  There's no room in the inn at the Holiday Inn across from the pier there, so we will just have to stay in London another night and go down the day of the cruise.