I was so excited to be in a Fourth of July Parade! July 4th was on a Monday this year, so everyone got to enjoy a perfect summer weekend with friends and family. After spending a week at the 2011 Miss Indiana Pageant, I am really glad to be back home in Knox County. Its funny how a week in Zionsville made me miss things I see everyday and might be tempted to take for granted, like cornfields and long country roads that lead home.
For the Fourth of July parade in Vincennes I came prepared with lots of goodies and we decorated my float - a Ford F-150 truck - with several magnetic signs. We even had a sign for my Miss Indiana Princess Gia! One of my signs noted my top ten finish, which is still something I think might have been a dream. But it actually happened, and there I was in the parade as a local titleholder in the Miss America Organization and a top ten finalist in the 2011 Miss Indiana Pageant.
This parade was a lot longer than the Miss Indiana Parade in Zionsville, but that didn't keep me from walking the entire parade route. I love sitting on the back of a convertible doing my best Miss America wave because it makes me feel like such a celebrity, but this time I wanted to walk so I could talk to people and hand out treats to the kids instead of tossing them from the car. There is something really nice about those brief meetings along the sidewalks of a parade route, and I like to think somewhere along the parade was a future titleholder who saw how I do my job and got inspired. With the help of Princess Gia, we gave out about 350 popsicles, plus we had some beads, pink flamingos and even a few stuffed animals. The July 4th parade was a great start to my summer!
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