Day 1, continued continued

I finally got on the train at around 2:00AM PDT.  They had issues with getting everyone seated.  I wasn’t sure what exactly the reason was at the time, but I know that they kept saying that the train was booked and that everyone had to keep to their assigned seats.  It was 2:00AM, and I think that everyone just really wanted to get to sleep, so we paid attention enough to get into our respective seats and dozed-off.  There were a lot of people getting on that were bussed-in from Seattle with us.  I know that we had about two and a half coach busses full of people, which I think works out to somewhere around 120 or more people.  Boarding was a zoo and a half, but we all got on and got seated.  The train was underway by 2:30AM.