"You Don't Always Have to be Your Own Hero"

I live in a small town, as such there isn't much in terms of job opportunities other than your typical retailers or fast food. For the majority of my adult life I've always worked out of town an hour or more from my home. It is what it is and I don't complain about it. I've always made friends at my jobs and every now and then they ask me to hang out. Whenever we make plans to do something Ive always driven to them. Well this weekend there was an event in my town that I was really looking forward to going to so I asked two of my friends if they wanted to come with me. They both said yes, but the last few days leading up to this weekend they were asking if I really wanted to go, or if there was something else I wanted to do instead. I said no, I was planning on going to this event for the last two weeks.

Well here we are day of, one friend texted saying she was sick and the other said she didn't want to go if the other friend wasn't going.

I'm just a little frustrated because if they really didn't want to go in the first place they could have just said so. Its not like I was trying to force them into coming with me. It also just feels like I'm always the one putting in any effort. Like if I don't go out of my way to drive to go see them then we won't hang out. The first time I actually want to do something in my town, they both make excuses.