When the football team learned they earned a spot in the Holiday Bowl, the band expected to spend the holidays in the Southern California sunshine.

But mother nature had other plans.

Their things were packed and their minds were set on sunshine.

The Cornhusker Marching Band was all but on the bus when they learned their San Diego plans were cancelled.

For most, the idea is now setting in that their final, most anticipated performance is no more.

For UNL Senior Chris Sikkema, it's just another normal day on winter break.

Sikkema says, "I've just been hanging out waiting for the roads to clear."

But it was supposed to be anything but normal. He should to be in San Diego practicing for the Holiday Bowl.

The Cornhusker Drumline member learned just hours before takeoff that the band's bus trip to the west coast was cancelled because of the snowstorm.

Sikkema adds, "Everybody was kind of banking on us going and then that turned into disappointment."

Their cross-country trip had been planned and their bags were already packed and on the bus.

But after a tough decision by band directors, the decision was final: No trip was important enough to risk their safety.

Sikkema says, "It made the most sense to keep everybody safe and I think a lot of people really understood where the directors were coming from even though they might not have been happy with it."

Sikkema says the bowl performance is the most anticipated performance of the year. It's also their final one. "Everybody's expecting to be able to get together and perform one last time, you just kind of hope that there's one more time, but it was taken away from a lot of people."

And for Seniors, it was their last chance to put on the uniform and perform as a team.

Instead, it was just another normal day on winter break.

To add insult to injury, Chris missed out on going home to Iowa for Christmas because he had already decided to go make the trip to San Diego.

Instead, he ended up in Lincoln.