UNO Arena Update

This one won't be used in our Christmas letter
because it is not a white car in the background.

We had noticed a lot of progress at the UNO arena site lately, so we thought it would be a good time to do another photo update that can be included in our "Back to the Future" photo series. (If you aren't familiar with it, read this post.)

Fortunately, the weather was good. And true to form, Lauren lasted all of four or five photos before she shrilled "I'm tired of this!" and walked off.

Here's the photo shoot, in photos:

Veronica got a lift from Emily.

Everyone was on the lookout for a white car for our usual background.

This one should work just fine.

This is typical of the craziness behind the scenes at one of our shoots.

Lauren has obviously had enough.

We can still include (at least part of) her!

Here's an update on the Pacific Life building, which will go next to the parking garage.

Aksarben Village Construction Update

Lauren posed in front of the construction of the Pacific Life Building.

It wasn't too long ago that we would park at Aksarben Village and walk across a large, empty, grassy lot to get to Aksarben Cinema. Now the grass is gone, a fence has gone up and a mammoth structure is going up.

Lauren and I stopped by to see the progress. The view over the fence (at right) shows construction of the planned Pacific Life building is coming right along.

Here is one of the buildings, as described by the Omaha World-Herald.

And here is a bird's eye view of the planned construction (courtesy of the Omaha World-Herald).