Creative Captions: Oct. 26

It may have been a gray and rainy week outside, but there was lots of sun among the Creative Captions entries. Our picture of a dancer during a Miami parade celebrating Caribbean culture set readers’ brains to spinning, and had some of them strutting like a peacock over their creations.

Our picks from the nearly 125 entries this week:

Everyone always says to shine like the sun.

Kellie Nieses, seventh grade, St. Patrick School, McCook, Neb.

Her father always wanted a sun.

Charles Kramer, Lincoln

I’m ready to dance with the stars.

Frankie Copple and Anna Shaver, sixth grade, Golden Hills Elementary, Bellevue

PocaHOTnas.

James Swanson, Kearney, Neb.

The sun on my back just makes me want to dance!

Bailey Petersen, Minden High School

I’m as pretty as a peacock.

Sara Smith, via e-mail

Kaleidoscopes are better than they used to be.

Gayle Dahlkoetter, Homer, Neb.

Gold digga.

Dillon McIntosh, Minden, Neb.

Can you see me now?

Harm Sikkenga, Minden, Neb.

That’s the biggest dream-catcher I ever saw.

John Zuroske, Algoma, Wis.

Something new to orbit.

Niko Poulos, eighth grade, St. Albert School, Council Bluffs

NBC takes their trademark to a more “diversified” level!

Mel B. Shelnutt, Clarinda, Iowa

I’m Sitting Bull’s daughter, Sitting Pretty.

Mike Messina, Omaha

Spin the wheel and watch me dance.

Kay Klevemann, Fremont, Neb.

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