Kanadie, big hugs...
here is my recommendation: Step away as others have said and then later pick up the phone and call your airline and ask for a manager and cry and whine a river to that manager about your situation....airlines do have a little bit of leeway in that area, once they have already collected a change fee once.
If I were you I would also have no shame telling them that if they do that second change for you, you would tell your whole online blog community about ;D on how that experience went.
Hey...easy promise to make.... and beggars can't be choosers.
Hotel should be changeable anyways and your ticket will not require changing.
If you can work your work schedule around this, then don't let your airline be the one that kills the trip.
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Cassie: love your little climb up the optimistic vine, except for one piece. I never want the world to say: Freddie..who? In fact I think that Adam and other singers who will come in future generations are having a role in making sure that this will never have to be said about Freddie....I know you did not mean it as a diss to Freddie...but I just went
when reading it.
Been a fan of Queen for at least 30 years longer than I have been an Adam fan, even though I was with Queen never personally engaged in anything. They were already well established when I discovered them. There was no artist who first had to be put onto his proper world wide stage, which with Adam is still very much a topic. You just have to read some of the nonsense written on QueenOnline about Adam to know that Adam needs us to be there for him. Too many people in the world who have no other interest, but to bring other people down, just to get some weird anal-retentive gratification of reading their own shite about putting somebody down who is trying to make it up the ladder.
But anyhooo....silly Queen fans on some web-site or not....Freddie shall never be forgotten. And may Adam also find a place in the history books worthy of his talent.
Btw...I don't see Adam and anything classical (opera), etc. happening. I don't think classical music was ever truly brought to his ears and he has never expressed any interest to explore it.
Perhaps he discovers it some day, don't know. But certainly right now, this whole world is totally missing from his musical frame of mind, quite noticeably so actually for me and probably for you too. This does differentiate him from Freddie, who had a strong classical foundation developed during the years of his upbringing and therefore had roots he could connect to on that level.
Adam does not have such roots and sometimes I wish he did have them. It would make a few things easier for him. But it is what it is.
He works with what he has at his disposal and it is working too.
Talking about something working...
I was yesterday not able to flail with you all, and have over 40 pages to catch up, but of course I listened to the song, in fact, I think I am having the biggest ear worm that I have ever had in my life. Went to sleep with it and woke up with it. This song is like seductive sirup and feel like the fly caught in it. I mean I am enjoying the taste, but I feel I am drowning it it too.
And I just listened to Trespassing again (what we have of it) and it is just so delightful. My prediction is that NCOE will have a different trajectory than WWFM or others had. It will climb quickly, but it will also age a bit faster because people will have it stuck in their ears just like I do and it will age a bit faster. But listening to Trespassing right after NCOE and knowing that this is the same artist, that is a true delight. Nobody out their with that variety of music anywhere on the horizon in pop or rock or any other genre for that matter.
ETA>: Just read your 'Olga' post. My presumption from my own experience with Russia is that you will be fine. These folks who play middle-man in such situation want to make a buck (as in American green) and they run ground services in a sub-market where official paths just don't properly exist. You get your ticket, because they want the green and this is only about that cash for them. Business is done in hotel rooms that way all over Russia and tons of other countries too. Welcome to a whole world that the average American has never seen. Its just people trying to find a way to make a living, nothing more. You will be fine.
Oh and for two extra days in Moscow, I envy you. So much worthwhile sight-seeing you can do there. I hope you get to enjoy it. Early July is a wonderful time to be in Moscow, weather permitting. Hope that you can share your time with a few other Glamberts, so that you can sight-see as a group or with friends. Alone it is a bit more challenging, because you cannot read street signs and shops and other places are not quite as easily navigated, as they are here.
Cassie. 
and 
for Kanadie and all the other people who have been so screwed up by all the changes in the international dates. I was all 
for the people who were so bold as to drop everything to fly to another country to attend these historic shows. Now, it just seems like another hard lesson in crummy reality 
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