The Getaway: Fire and Blood

The weekend away was good times. It's encredibly cheap to take the train to New Jersey. I invaded the Kalju household and returned here this afternoon. It was fun to just pack the bare essentials (which I do every time I travel) and go away for an undetermined amount of time. The visit consisted of a lot of walking around a lake (which I believe is actually river) where "life" was a recurring theme, sitting in a kitchen with his sizely family eating food, food and more food, playing violent video games and mastermining more Dead Land concepts.
Some of us went to the beach yesterday to take on the ocean. To our surprise the very hot day did not necessarily mean the sea was inviting. I walked up to the tide and after a few minutes of the surf hitting my feet, they become unyieldly stumps, completely numb. I then buried my feet in the got sand and repeated the cycle.
We also walked down the boardwalk to see if hobos stilled lived under the stilted building. We didn't see any, but we did stumble onto this awkward grouping of band and audience. We past it and then doubled back out of curiousity. The audience wasn't clapping in unison, there was a brass band that was replaced by a 400 pound black dude at the keyboard and a singer who lost all her papers due to the wind and belted out Christian themed songs. Another guy was holding a flag that read the slogan, "Fire and Blood." Most of the everyone involved wore some kind of uniform, all with shoulder plates bearing the letter "S" and some kind of ranking. And some held what could have very likely been bibles. We were in a rush to figure out just who these people were. And then they revealed themselves. They were the Salvation Army. This discovery made us rethink the originization and its purpose and brought about so many ideas for Dead Land.
Last night we were going to invade a neighbors pool but once we arrived there, it began to downpour and the need for a pool kind of went away. Ended the night with a Simpsons marathon. The visit has left me a little sad that my friends are so spread out and mostly unreachable. Hmmp... oh well.