It's unbelievable... but it's true

Ok. going back in time here. The last night in Stockholm was... a cultural experience. We went out to a really swank restaurant because we all had lots of Kroner left and it's barely worth converting. We were really enjoying ourselves until we realized the menu was only available in Swedish. Lucky for us (sarcasm) our waiter decided to help by explaining each dish. I ordered what she called "several circles of beef with mozzarella cheese all over the top and special seasoning" I suppose that's an accurate description... she just left out that none of it is cooked. Yep, completely raw meat. Still mooing. I tried a bite but there was no way I was gonna eat it. When the chef saw that I wasn't eating he came to see what my problem was, I told him I was surprised that it was raw, he criticized my tastes, and the whole thing was embarrassing. Oh well, now it's kind of a funny story I suppose.
The next morning we got up to take the train to Copenhagen. I was excited because Denmark had been on my list of places to see. To bad I didn't see it that day. Our 3.5 hour train ride turned into a 14 hour definition of Murphy's Law. Everything imaginable, and some unimaginable, went wrong. First our train was delayed 1.5 hours. No biggie. Then, not long after we all noticed the train wasn't going as fast as we thought it should we were informed that it was not safe to take it across the 8 mile bridge to Denmark and that we would switch trains right before the bridge. This wasn't huge... but it didn't sound good. Next we came to a town that had lost power and apparently that keeps the trains from going through the station. We spent about 2.5 hours there. Next, our engine broke and we had to wait for it to be fixed. After it was fixed we got caught behind a "slow freighter". At this point it was already late, we were annoyed, and with each new bit of bad news our conductor sounded more and more like he was having to tell us someone had died. Then it came, our train stopped, the conductors voice came over the intercom and said "Ladies and Gentlemen... you're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you... the train has been struck by lightning... " He explained some of the damage apologized then concluded with "It's unbelievable... but it's true". As soon as he was done howls of laughter erupted from the most of us. At that point the whole thing was just funny. Our next delay came at the train switch, the conductor for the new train was running about 1 hour late. So to pass the time we chatted with a young Danish couple and their son in our compartment. The man could speak German, French, Danish, Spanish, and English. The Woman spoke Danish and English, and their little boy understood Danish and Spanish. We had a good time talking to them about their lives and how different our counties are. High School Spanish even came in handy for talking to their adorable son. We finally arrived to Copenhagen at about 2am and made it to our hotel by 3am.