NAM National Pageant Day 3

Day 3:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hollywood Tour!

Mom & Dad's clothes mysteriously got delivered in the middle of the night - thankfully! So the day was off to a great start, but that ended quickly. We we're supposed to go on a tour with the pageant contestants but there was an itty bitty time mix up and we missed the bus. But, we weren't the only ones, my sister queen Kelly (Miss New York Teen) and her family missed it also. So one of the pageant directors arranged for us to go on a private tour with another tour company.

We started off in Hollywood where we got to visit Grauman's Chinese Theater where all of the stars have their handprints. Here I am with the fabulous Marilyn Monroe's handprints, footprints, and autograph alonside her "Gentleman Prefer Blonde's" co-tar Jane Russell's:

We then visited the Kodak Theater where the Academy Awards are held. All of these tourists came up to me for autographs and to take pictures with me - it was pretty cool, I felt like a real celebrity. We then visited Marilyn Monroe's star which is located in front of a McDonald's (which, in my opinion, should really be a Victoria's Secret) before heading back to the bus for our next location.

Next, we headed for..."Rodeo Drive, baby" (to quote "Pretty Woman"), but first we did a tour of the celebrity houses in Beverly Hills. We saw the house "The Godfather" was filmed in, one of Lucille Ball's houses, the house Marilyn Monroe died in, the house the Osbourne's lived in when the filmed their TV show, the house Michael Jackson died in, and many other famous homes in the area. Upon our arrival at Rodeo Drive, the first thing I had to do was go to the hotel where they filmed "Pretty Woman". It looks nothing like it did in the film, but it was still pretty cool being there. I even have proof:
Here I am in the hotel's lobby

And here I am by the plaque with the hotel's name...

Since it was Thanksgiving all of the shops were closed but a tour of Rodeo wouldn't be complete without stopping by Tiffany's...We then headed over to Universal Studio's where we spent some time at the City Walk before heading back to our hotel for a special event...a raffle drawing for a 2010 Mustang Convertible! While I didn't win, one of my state sister queen's did! Here we are:

Yes, she's 7 and she won the car. But how adorable is she?!?!

After the drawing, we concluded our day with the very fancy and upscale black and white themed Thanksgiving Banquet. Here I am with Ashley, one of my NY sister queens:

After today, all of the fun and games are over and it's time for competition!

NAM National Pageant Day 2

Day 2: Disneyland

During our day at Disney, we're treated like royalty - Disney Princess Royalty. They shut down Sleeping Beauty's Castle for us to take a big group picture in front of. The true power of your title hits you when little girls around the park are more excited to see you than Cinderella and they want your autograph in those special Disney autograph books.

We spent the day going on rides and enjoying the sunshine. Here is a picture of some of the miss girls in front of the castle making funny faces:

NAM National Pageant Day 1

I am so sorry for the delay in updating, things have just been rather hectic lately. Over Thanksgiving, I flew to the other side of the country to compete in the National American Miss Pageant which was held in Anaheim, CA for a week. I proudly represented my state and left with quite a few honors and an entire suitcase of trophies.

Day 1:

I had an interesting start to my day. At 7:00 am the fire alarm went off in my hotel (figures the one day I actually could sleep in a little bit!) As it turns out, the sprinkler was set off in the room right across the hall from me. Thankfully, there was no fire but there was a whole ton of nasty stagnant pipe water pouring into the room. Unfortunately, it was my sister queen's room - Miss NY Jr. Teen. My father and I ran in and tried to salvage as much of her stuff from getting ruined. We got out the important things and then turned our attention to chocking the valve to stop the water. We tried everything in the kitchen, but nothing worked. About ten minutes later, the hotel maintenance guy arrived with the shut off valves which he conveniently dropped on the table then ran out of the room. I gave them to my father and he was able to shut off the sprinkler. We were both soaking wet and covered in debris that had collected in the water while it sat in those pipes for god knows how long. When I left the room the water had run across the hall and was flowing into our room. I told my mom to grab the towels, sheets, anything to absorb the water (this ended up including the very expensive and comfy mattress pads). To make things worse, my parents shipped all of their clothes before we left so that we could carry my stuff on the plane and the box was conveniently lost by UPS so when we ran into the room with the spinkler, my dad had on the only clothes he had and had to go down to the lobby and do laundry in his pajamas. Long story short, we ended up having to switch rooms and I ended up getting to registration a little late. I had orientation and got to meet all of my sister queens from the other states. Then competitions started up right away.

I competeted in the optional Spokesmodel competition where I gave a speech about how pressured women feel to look perfect all of the time which has resulted in unnecessary, expensive and painful plastic surgery. I offered a solution that involves confidence building. I didn't place in the top 5 for this competition but I did really well and I got a very high score.

I also had the Top Model Competition which was a photo shoot that took all of 5 minutes. I did really well and was 1st Runner-Up in this competition! Here are just two samples from the shoot:

The night concluded with a 70s Disco Themed Party. Here's a shot of me with my NY sister queens: