Road Trip To Lincoln

Emily (left) starred in the opening scene, holding a surf board (that she painted).

Program page listing Omaha Central's cast and crew.

We made the first of what I expect will be many, many trips to Lincoln for school events today when we drove to Lincoln North Star High School for the District A-1 One Act Play competition. This was my first time at the high school, which (thankfully) is located on the outskirts of town, closest to Omaha. Emily traveled on the school bus while we followed (hours later) and stopped to eat lunch at Arby's. Lauren bailed on us at the last minute, which was just fine since student admission was $4.

If you missed our prior entry on the first public performance of "A Midsummer Night in the OC," you can read about it here. Today's audience consisted primarily of students from the other seven schools on hand, plus a smattering of parents. It appeared Julia, Olivia and Veronica were the only small-school students there. Judging by the laughs and positive audience reaction, the play went over very well with the teenage crowd. Emily and her classmates were really into the performance and I judged it the best of the four plays we watched.

In the end, Omaha Central finished fourth behind winner Gretna, runner-up Lincoln North Star and a school I can't recall. We didn't see any of the three performances that finished ahead of Central, but we heard one of them made people cry.

A bit out of order, but we did stop at Arby's for lunch. Yum.

The drive to Lincoln was a bit foggy and wet. But there was no snow.

Lincoln North Star is pretty new, built in the last 10 years.

Shari (with Veronica) was responsible for the shark's make-up job. Check it out here.

Omaha Central had the most actors receiving outstanding performance awards.

Veronica was pretty sacked out by the end of the drive home.