August 11^th, 2009

This is what a typical MAOT day looks like:

7:00-7:30- Breakfast

7:30-12:00- Rehearsal

12:00-12:30- Lunch

12:30-1:00- Travel to the Theater

1:00-5:00- Rehearsal

5:00-5:30- Dinner

5:30-7:00- Prep

7:00-9:30- Preliminary competition

9:30:10:00- Visitation

10:00-10:30- Travel to hotel

10:30-11:00- Meeting

Funny quotes by other contestants:

· After a long day of rehearsal: “Socks are like clouds on my feet.”

· Seeing all the national princesses: “I just want to bake them up in a cupcake.”

· End of Saturday night, our final night together: “Minnesota, you have good connection to me… I mean complexion,” Miss Mississippi’s Outstanding Teen.

· Me: “I’m just joking Kelly.”

Kelly: “Well, I’m just pickin’.”

Me: “What are you picking?”

Kelly: Laughs! “Instead of saying I’m just joooking, like in Minnesota, down in Louisiana we say, I’m just pickin’.”