Day 326: You Have Died Of Dysentary

We kicked back and relaxed most of today, except for a little family movie at the base theater to see Disney's new awesome:

This movie is fantastic, with the exception of a really strange out-of-place scene involving a giant crab. The music is outstanding and HeiHei the chicken is the best Disney Princess sidekick ever. 

This evening we had friends over for dinner and cracked open a new game, which actually is a very OLD game:

Yes, this is a thing

The game is strangely complicated. Everyone has a hand of "trail" cards, and a hand of "supply" cards. Each turn, you lay down a trail piece, which may include fording a river (roll a dice) or drawing a calamity card (you have DIED of DYSENTERY). The game tries to kill you at literally ever turn. If you survive 100 trail cards (or 50, in our house rule), you make it to Oregon. 

The finish line is always just out of reach.

It's a strangely entertaining but slightly annoying little card game, definitely better with the more players you have and with some tweaks and "house rules". I gloriously drowned in a failed river-fording attempt and survived the other two expeditions. Our friend died of dysentery the first turn. We are working on creating a "calamity ghost player" house rule for those that die the first turn out of 100. 

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