Packed and ready to take off on another Alison Weir tour with my sister. This time off to Scotland to see some of Mary Queen of Scots stomping ground with a highlight of dinner on the Royal Britannia while in Edinburgh.

All seemed to be going smoothly until I went to check into my flight and delta responded with a notice of two days until time to check-in. Panic ensued. First thought was how could I have messed up the dates so bad. Emails confirmed I had booked for the right day but all that was showing with the confirmation number was the new flight l, nothing bout the change. Made me feel like I was crazy. Delta not being my favorite airline (Atlanta is a nightmare), I don’t have the app or even a login so it was a struggle to confirm my flight times. The call wait was an excruciating 30 minutes and then about another 30 getting it fixed. Seems there was something going on at the Amsterdam airport and our flight was canceled and rescheduled for Saturday night. It would have been nice to be informed but I guess that was too much to ask. Even the agent helping could see that it said I hadn’t been notified. Not sure how that is appropriate but then it also wasn’t letting her change the flight without me paying for the difference in the tickets. So after what seemed like hours on hold the supervisor made the adjustments necessary to rebook me to go out on Thursday flying through New York. This meant we had to head out 3 hours earlier and made my decision to work that morning seem really stupid. Good thing I was packed and ready over the weekend so other than a few things like phone cords I arrived with everything I needed.

After a mad dash out of the office we got to the airport around 12:30 and had time for lunch which I was excited about since a lot of Austin restaurants are now only in the airport. We ended up at Huts. The burger was good but Austin burgers have come along way from when Huts used to be the go to place on 6th. The cheese fries not so much. It was like movie nacho cheese with a sprinkling of grated cheddar. Don’t get me wrong I ate them but they were far from what I remembered. It did however make the 2 hour wait at the airport go quickly.

Due to the last minute change to our flights we lost our comfort plus seats and were on the very last row crammed in like sardines. The flight to New York was miserable. We had a quick connection to our next flight and walked to the gate right as they were starting to board so all the worry about the tight connection was for nothing. Again we were in the last row but the seats did have a little more space and were not as uncomfortable. All our luggage made it safely to Scotland (even my carry one that I checked at the gate). So all worked out in the end.

We made it to Edinburgh much earlier than the original flight so had the whole day to wander. more on that later.