Friday Nov 27

Updating first thing in the morning. Jackie had interview she said she did great! Some tough questions What food do you cook. What have you learned this week? will update rest of day later.

The girls also met with Patty Hawkins the national director and had a picture taken.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Today was by far the most exhausting and trying day yet. Sorry this post is 1 day late but events did not end until 11:45pm and C.J. was at the magic kingdom until midnight so we did not arrive home until very late. Today was filled with more rehersals and the all important evening wear competition. Both girls looked and performed amazingly. Jacqueline was also lucky enough to place in the top 5 for actress. She did a Mastercard comercial about the Phillies. The night ended with my competition for the Mrs. title. By that time I was completly exhausted and spent. I still placed first runner-up. We did have a pleasant break in the middle of the day, we hosted my parents and the Seratch family for Thanksgiving Dinner at our condo compliments of the Honey baked ham store. Complete dinner ready to go. Around midnight Carter Butler the producer of the Coed pageant for the past 25 years pulled the winning ticket for the trip.

THE WINNER OF THE VEGAS/MYRTLE BEACH TRIP IS ANTOINETTE HICKS OF NEW CASTLE DELAWARE CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More pictures of Wednesday events

Wednesday Nov 25

Today was filled with optional competitions, rehersals, and parties. Julia competed in speech, actress and modeling. Jacqueline competed in actress and modeling. The highlight of the day was the cookie gift exchange party. Each group ( Princess and Sweetheart) had their own party. The girls in each division had cookies and juice and exchanged gifts. My girls gave out giant Hershey cookies and cream candy bars (donated by Hershey) and Patriotic hair bows made by mom all 115 of them.

Day at Disney for all contestants

We are totally registered Julia contestant #248 Jacqueline #138. Today Tuesday Nov 24th is the day all the contestants from all divisions got to go to Disney World. The place was a Mad-House. We went on a few rides after waiting 40 min each. The girls posed for some pictures, and met a few of their favorite caracters. Needless to say the kids and mom and Dad had enough around 4pm. We left and went back to our resort to our pool. My mom and Dad are now checked into the Hilton we met them and went to dinner.

Monday Nov 23rd Animal Kingdom and Orientation

We are finally settled into our timeshare. This am we got up early and went to animal kingdom. Unlike yesterday today was very crowded. We were able to do a few things then the girls and I had to leave to go to the Hilton Hotel in Downtown Disney to register for the pageant. This process took 3 hours. The girls were not happy about missing the rest of Animal Kingdom. The boys stayed behind and had a wonderful time. We promised them we would go back at the end of the week.

We arrived in Orlando at 3am on Sunday morning

Chris was a mad-man drove 8 hours straight after the day in Stone Mt. Georgia to arrive in Orlando. Thank goodness the second hotel we tried had one room left. We got up Sunday morning and spent the day at Epcot. The park was not that crowded and we had a fantastic time!!! The girls wore their sashes and received many compliments and congratulations.