Miss America 2006

Deidre Downs crowned the New Miss America 2006, Miss Oklahoma, Jennifer Berry last night live on CMT (Country Music Television). She walked the runway to the famous Bert Park's song "There she is." They had to change the song from saying "Atlantic City" because the competition is no longer held there. They moved the competition from September to January, ABC to CMT, and the winner receives $30,000 instead of the past prize amount of $50,000.

My top choices for Miss America were Miss North Carolina, Brooke McLaurin, Miss Texas, Morgan Matlock (top 10 semi-finalist), and Miss District of Columbia, Shannon Schambeau (4th runner-up). So I had some pretty good picks but just didn't pick the winner.

While watching the Miss America pageant with my roommates we decided to have a Miss 47 E. 12th St! We will have to do the same preliminaries too~ Interview, Swimsuit, Talent, and Evening Gown. Most of the girls have decided that their talent portion will have something to do with beer!! So last night in the kitchen we all did our introduction stating our name, where we are from, and what we are studying in school. Cat was hilarious because she was drunk(for the 8th night in a row) and she was putting her hips into her introduction!

After we were done playing Miss America, we headed for the bar. We had an exceptionally large group last night because Sarah M. was back in town for the weekend and my cousin Johnny came down to visit some of his friends too! We ended up sitting in a booth with some guys that Cathy and Courtney befriended! We stayed there until 2am or so and walked down the Cain's to get some famous chicken fingers(last night was my first time there)! It was good, but everyone talked it up so much that I was expecting so much more.

The weekend wasn't over yet~ we all went to Bob Evans this morning for breakfast/lunch! The best part of breakfast was the car ride home when we got to hear some embarrassing stories about Sarah's little sister! I seriously had tears running down my face! What a wonderful weekend!

In the Pictures: Top Left Picture (L-R): Natalie, Kaci, and Cat after the Miss America pageant

Top Right picture (L-R): Kaci and Cat~ posing for the camera!