Bad Luck

So I planned on visiting my friends down in Portland this weekend. We were planning on heading out to Rockaway beach. This would have been an awesome weekend. Well besides the fact that Shari wasn't going to be able to make it down. So I decided that I should take the train down to Portland. It's about a 3.5 hr - 4 hr trip. Not too expensive and no stress. Well I checked for tickets this morning and everything was all sold out. At this time I was a little bummed but decided to drive down to the train station and ask if they had anything free up. When I got down there I was able to get a ticket with out any problems. I was to leave for Portland at 11:20 and get into Portland at around 3. This was perfect cause Andy in Portland would be able to pick me up and we could head out to the beach around 4. Ah to think that as I'm writing this post now I could be leaving Portland heading for the beach. So anyway... the train leaves right on time. We start making our way down to Portland. Everything was pretty uneventful just until we got into Tacoma. Tacoma is about an hour or an hour and half drive from Seattle. So we stop just about a mile shy of the train station in Tacoma. The conductor or some other train offical comes over the intercom and states that a train in front of ours had a car derail. So we waited there for about an hour and a half until Amtrak decided that we would turn around and head back to Seattle and then have busses waiting for us to take us onto whatever the destinations were. The hell if I was going to take the bus down to Portland. I wouldn't get in until late in the evening and I'm not sure if I would have had a ride out to the beach until Saturday. So I decided to just get a refund and come back home. I'm still not sure if I'll be able to head down there this weekend or not. We'll just have to see how my bad luck plays out.