September 20, 2003
Miss America
One of the hardest things about living on the West Coast is that they tape-delay Miss America so I can't call Mom and Lisa during the commercials to compare notes! This year, Lisa's without power anyway, so Mom's taping it for her, but Mom and Betty watched, and Carrie called in at the end.
Some highlights:
- every christmas, miss arkansas and her family play hot potato with a ball of fire!
- miss ct was a former member of the us tap dancing team!
- miss iowa is fork-lift safety certified...
- miss kansas is a baton twirler!! (we love the baton twirlers... and the one year that one contestant walked on broken glass... watching singing as everyone's talent just isn't as interesting)
- miss kentucky says she likes watching trading spaces (there are two new ones on tonight! luckily they're replaying them later so I can Tivo them too)
- miss west virginia is an expert bargain shopper
- miss wyoming is also a fork lift driver!
- miss hawaii is a roller-skating limbo queen!
Tom Bergeron may have been the world's worst host -- but Carrie warned me that he goes on and on and that I should just fast-forward to Clay Aiken singing (I love Tivo!). I think we could have done without Trista and her friends as well. I guess there's a reason I don't watch many ABC shows. I'm still not sure who the strange people on the chairs giving the individual scores were (but they were pretty painful to watch!) The casual wear was a bit odd -- not sure what was up with some of those hats and the goofy parading around in them).
My picks from the quick intros were FL, MS, OR, TN. The top 15 ended up being MO (amber - who must be 8 ft tall), MI (madonna), VA (nancy), IN (bryn), MD (marina), RI (laurie), CA (nicole), FL (ericka), AL (catherine), HI (kanoelani), NH (candace), GA (andrea), OK (kelley), WI (tina), and NJ (jenniefer) -- so I only got one of my picks that far.
Of course, the Miss America web site gave the winner away East Coast time (grumble, i only went to the site to look up the contestant bios) So it looks like I picked right afterall! Yay!