my weekend and prom night

Hello

Being as inexperienced a blogger as I am, I really have no idea when I should write or even what to say. I guess for the next year, I'll just write about everything important that happens in my life, even if it doesn't exactly pertain to being MVOT.



That being said, this weekend was definitely important!



First of all, I participated in my home town's Memorial Day parade.

I rode in a white Corvette that is literally twice my age (I feel so young!) and was driven by a very nice gentleman who owned the 'vette. The weather was strange and continually shifted between cool and cloudy and brilliantly sunny (it was unfortunately so when my picture was taken for the paper and there wasn't a thing I could do to overcome my squint!).

Anyhow, it was a very nice parade and it was wonderful to stand and smile and give a little "pageant wave". Afterwards there was a dedication of a cannon being donated to our war memorial and a motivational speaker.



When the speech was done, taps was played and the guns fired, we went home. Caroline, my amazing manager (it is difficult to find a title for her, she does so many things! Manager comes pretty close to encompassing them all) stayed at my house for a couple of hours and she, my Mom, and I worked on nationals paper work, and other event planning.



Now for the really exciting, super, best highlight of my weekend.

Saturday night, I went to prom!!!!!!!

It was a wonderful night and I had so much fun and I wasn't even tired until I got to my friends house and totally crashed.

Here are some details.

I was asked by a very nice senior in my gym class and after much parental persuasion, I was allowed to go.

I went to another friend's house in Essex (where I go to school) and a bunch of us girls got ready for the night there. I tried to curl my hair, but my hair didn't respond very well. It looked fine anyway, though. I wore my coral/orangish dress from Deb that I was crowned in at the pageant this year. Once we were completely ready (which always takes longer than you have time for) we went to the house of one of the girl's dates. All of the parents were there to take pictures.

Once pictures had been sufficiently taken, we had planned to go to dinner at American Flat Bread. Unfortunately, we hadn't made reservations and our plans quickly changed. Thankfully, we were able to find a place that could take us and we set of to drive to the restaurant.

Let me tell you, things never go exactly as planned and our evening was certainly not going to.

It turned out that one of our drivers had a very flat tire!

We were able to make it to a gas station where we discovered that putting air into the tire wasn't going to suffice and that the tire would have to be replaced! And, of course, no one knew how to do that. I have some pretty funny pictures of all the guys trying to figure out how to change the tire. None of their attempts proved successful however, and we were soon forced to find other means of transportation. When that was done, we realized, we no longer had time to have a sit-down dinner and still make it to prom before the doors closed. We ended up just getting ice cream at Rocky's, which was fine because no one really felt like eating a big dinner anymore anyway.



We arrived at the prom just in time.

It was lovely.

Our prom was held at the Echo Center on the Burlington water front, an ideal location.

The bottom floor was used for dancing. It was extremely crowded, but not unpleasant.

The upper floors were spaciously vacated and the balcony was a beautiful refuge from the noise and heat inside. The water front was gorgeous.

It was a very enjoyable night and my date even got Prom King (and my good friend got Prom Queen so it was perfect).

We stayed almost until the end, then went to the Essex Cinemas where the after prom party was to be held. We watched the new Narnia film which I would recommend to anyone, I thought it was just as good as the first one, even though it differed from the book a bit.

By the time that was over, I was getting tired ( it was almost three a.m.)

so I met up with my friend and her date took us to her house where we ended up chatting until it was light out and falling asleep mid-sentence.



Whew! That was a long entry!



To summarize, the rest of my weekend was spent catching up on sleep, going running, cleaning my room (it had been a while and my Mom was getting sick of the constant clutter) and doing homework.



Well, I'd say I've written quite enough. I have a humongous English project to do and tons of house cleaning. My grandparents are coming soon! Yay! Plus, I'm planning on finally getting my driver's permit on Friday. I've been waiting since November and there always seems to be some reason or another why I can't get an appointment so I hope I actually get it now.

Anyway, my next 'appearance' is at Teen Fest on March 31 where I will be signing at an autograph table. Let's see how good my signature is!



Wow, I've really got to go or I will never stop writing. What's up with me today?



Bye Bye!

Eewww that is way to cutsie. Oh well! Bye Bye just the same.



Blaize : )

Miss Vermont's Outstanding Teen '08