Sarah Portugal, Miss Solano County 2010 and I.
Russ Gladden a California State Field Director and I- My fellow classical music enthusiast buddy
I was able to go to the Miss Los Angeles/ Culver City/ City of Los Angeles Pageant with my good friends Gabino and Sarah Rutan. We laughed so much that our abs hurt before we even got to the grapevine. It was a trip that I will never forget. Sarah was competing with so many of my very good friends so it was such an anticipated weekend. There were 22 miss contestants and 5 teen contestants. It was a huge show! Deanna Wride always puts on a great production and I really enjoyed the competition. I met so many new friends who will be competing at Miss California this July, so that has me even more excited to keep preparing for my local so I can spend the week with so many fabulous young women.
Congratulations to our new Miss Los Angeles, Laura Holliman, 2010 Miss City of Los Angeles Ruth Stainer, and Miss Culver City Laura Jean Burger.
Ruth Stainer, Miss City of Los Angeles 2010
LauraJean Burger Miss Culver City 2010
The first night we checked into our BEAUTIFUL hotel room at the Sheraton Delfina and went to watch the rehearsals. Gabino and I were absolutely starving because we never had a chance to stop to get food on the way so we ended up walking to the only place nearby to get some popcorn chicken. We laughed and laughed because when we got back to rehearsals they were doing the swimsuit run through and I said, "hmm, well I suppose this is a moment I'm glad I'm not competing?" Cheering girls on with popcorn chicken in my hand... well at least I can say it wasn't even that good, so you didn't miss out on much! Jillian Michaels definitely would not have approved.
After rehearsals, Sarah, Gabino, Lindsay Becker and her mom Connie and I all went to dinner in the lobby of our hotel. We started out very talkative and excited to all be together, but our service was SO slow, and we started dragging towards the end... I said, "when did I get so old? It's just a little past midnight and I'm dying to get in bed!"
Lindsay, Sarah, and I at the Sheraton restaurant
Gabino and Sarahs parents and I went to downtown Santa Monica to walk around but our fun tourist trip didn't turn out as we planned because it started to rain really hard so we had to go back to the car.
After the show on Saturday I had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory with Lindsay, her mom Connie, Jackie Geist, Sarah Rutan, Gabino, Sarah Portugal, and two of Sarah's friends from San Jose. We had such a fun time chatting and teaching the "newcomers" all about Miss America. I tried to get Jackie a free slice of pineapple upside down cake by telling the waiter that she was Miss California 2008- we even googled her on Gabino's iPhone to prove I was being serious. It didn't work- my plan failed miserably. But it still was pretty funny! Sorry for embarrassing you Jackie, but you're just so darn pretty I wanted to tell the world. :)
My mom was home from Idaho, so I was anxious to get home to visit some more before she left. But it was a perfect ending to the weekend!
Saturday night with friends
Checking out of the hotel and heading home!
On our way home from LA... sorry Sarah, I just had to. You were so angelic when you slept!
