As promised, here’s a photo of the evening gown that Miss Alabama wore on Saturday night.  The internet is buzzing about that BOW.  I swear, it was twice as big as is shown in this publicity shot.  I’ll bet she thought “Go big or go home!” and fluffed that bow up til it was even with the top of her head.  I’m pretty sure that on pageant night there were some sort of streamers coming off of it too.  It looks almost okay in this picture.  It might have worked if the whole thing was red.  I have to wonder of that dress is supposed to look like Bear Bryant’s hat - sort of a houndstooth effect?  I would not be even a little bit surprised. 

And here’s the new Miss America - a beautiful, talented girl with mascara issues.  I know she’s cringing. Bet from now on she goes everywhere with waterproof, industrial strength, non-flammable, quake ready eyelashes.

Time to close the laptop, shove it in my suitcase, and head for D.C.  We’re meeting Tyler for dinner and we’ll get back to our hotel late - but I’ll post a thought or two about our day.

Have mascara, will travel….’til later!