UPDATE-Today is Tuesday, June 21; it's a rehearsal day

We are in Blair, Nebraska
(Updates with revised menues and more news)


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Weather report and forecast for Blair

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Today's Menu

Breakfast
English muffin
Hash browns
Breakfast mustgo

Lunch
Grilled cheese
Chips
Watermelon

Dinner
Noodles
Bread sticks
Lettuce salad
Lemon bars

Snack
(Still) To be determined

Bill says: "We're having lemon bars at some time today, just don't know when."

Today's Schedule
8:30 Wake
8:45 Stretch and run
9:30 Breakfast
10:30 Meeting at cooktruck
10:45 Vis
1:30 Lunch
2:30 Sectionals
4 Ensemble
5:30 Dinner
6:30 Warmup
7 Ensemble
8:30 Play and tell (sweet!) (David's note: I don't know what in the heck this means. Anybody got a clue?)
9 Sectionals
10 Time off
12 Lights out

Today's Cooks
Barry (head cook)
Bill S.
Luba S.
Rob P.
Susan B.
Marie R.
Carol O.
Bruce A.

Sue Howard brought watermelon today. Partial donation from Wal-Mart.

Today's News


Both sets of Jeff Fountain's grandparents showed up, as did his mom and a cousin. The Fountains brought 32 dozen cookies -- also a Wal-Mart donation.

Kyle Kuckleman's family -- mom and dad and two siblings -- came to visit.

Tammy Cave showed up. She and Tom plan to be at the show in Omaha.

"All kinds of visitors today," Bill says.

Most of the news from yesterday was related to the weather. A series of big storms blew through Sioux Falls yesterday and last night. The storm cancelled the show -- but not the pizza stix. The Colts snack was already out in the ovens and thawing when the show was cancelled, so the intrepid cooks waited for a break in the rain, cooked the stix in 15 minutes and got the whole corps through the line and served in about 15 more. "It stopped raining long enough to get them fed dry -- not wet," Bill says.

They packed up and headed for Blair, NE, staying one jump in front of some pretty nasty weather by heading south and making phone calls to Nathan's storm-tracking friend in Missouri. Got in about 1:15 a.m. and down about 2, just in front of another big rain.

There was also a severe weather "drill" during Monday's rehearsals. The corps was notified that a front was moving through with "70 mph sheer winds" so the members got everything off the field and on the trucks and took refuge in the air-conditioned school. "The kids were remarkable," Bill says. "Scrambled off the field, got all the stuff in, into the trucks, into the school, really, really fast."

"Then we got nothing." The storm went around them. "Only worked out to be a drill."

Today looks better. "Dana College is beautiful. Really beautiful. It's overcast right now. Hope it stays that way."

As always, check colts.org for the latest official word on tour news, housing sites, mail drops, or other corps information.