The Odyssey

Louis and his cohorts have been working for about a month now to stage Homer's Odyssey, or as Louis puts it, "a greatly shortened version of The Odyssey". The play was finally presented last week.

Ted, Thành and I attended on Thursday and the kids did a great job. The backdrop (painted by the kids) and the costumes (togas sewn by parents) and masks (made by the kids) were lovely, as was the revised version of the song "We Need a Hero" that closed the play.

In case you don't know the story, Homer sets out on a voyage and returns twenty years later after many trials and tribulations including encounters with a cyclops, a deadly whirlpool, a witch, and more.

Louis, who was Voice #3 and introduced the Gods, memorized his lines quickly and because he can never seem to finish one thing before he's off on another, was seen reading in the wings.

For the performance on Friday the guests were Grandma Jeanne Goessling (Esko, MN) and Grandpa Jim and Grandma Jackie Trucker (St. Paul, MN). Everyone enjoyed the play and we were celebrating with a fine dinner of tacos when the phone rang. It was poor Auntie Renée Nowaczek (Bayport, MN) calling to say that Son #1 had fallen off of his bicycle and broken his arm during son #2's birthday party and she was the only parent present.

Grandma & Grandpa left in a hurry and went to supervise the sleep-over while poor Julian was taken to the hospital. Sure enough, broken ulna. Bummer.