Plays & Performances Abound

Bret Jr.'s basketball tournaments have been eating up a lot of our time - but there's also all the stuff that our other kids do on the side.  For instance, David served as the co-host of the Sturgeon Bay Middle School Arts Night.

Here's a compilation of videos of my son introducing the acts along with his friend Charles...



Of course, everyone thought we were nuts. I was the only guy in the room who'd pick up the video camera to film the guys who introduce the acts - only to put the camera down once the acts began.

Last week we also attended the Destination Imagination performances of a couple of our kids. For the uninitiated, Destination Imagination (or "DI" as it's known) is a program in which kids have to perform a challenge in the context of a skit they write for themselves. They practice this for several weeks before performing it before an audience and a panel of judges the day of the DI Tournament.

Bret Jr., Kekoa and Nalani all participated in the program.

Unfortunately, Nalani and Bret Jr.'s performances were scheduled for the same time in different rooms. Cari was one of the coaches of Nalani's team, so I went to see Bret Jr.'s peformance on the day of the tournament while Cari stayed with Nalani.

But I wanted to see Nalani's skit, so I attended her final practice which her team put on before her classmates.

Here's a video of the final practice of Nalani's 3rd grade team. Early on, Nalani plays the role of the Fruit Queen - sending her troops to battle the evil Candy Soldiers. Later, all the girls are Cheesehead Aliens and they walk with a strange walk.

Hey, it's an original skit written by 3rd graders...



Kekoa's 5th grade team did a nice job as well. The story revolves around a dream of a "dumb nerd," played by my son Kekoa...



Bret Jr. also participated on a 6th grade team, but he asked his mother not to post the video online. Oh well.