However, it's come full circle. I spent the entire beginning of my summer prepping hard for Miss California, hitting the gym everyday and running errands getting everything done.
My big event of this summer WAS Miss California. The ten days I spent there are days I'll hold near and dear to my heart forever.
Life continued on after Miss California, but nothing seemed as big or as glamourous as the ten days in Fresno.
We had a few more pageant activities here and there, but nothing major.
Then, this past weekend (my last weekend) we went to two pageants in a row, meeting up with girls that I haven't seen in months and enjoying saying good-bye to two of our own.
Slowly, we'll all lose our crowns and will just be "has-beens" of the 2009 pageant season, but the memories will live on forever.
Today, I'm heading over to my ED's house to hang out with some of my pageant sisters, as well as my real life sister, and try on newly acquired dresses.
It seems like a fitting end to the summer of 09.
I started it in a gown and I'll end it in one as well.
From now until the time I have to give up my crown, I'm going to try and throw myself into as many activities as I possibly can. This was a title I used to resent, and now one I love dearly.
It surprises me to discover that I DON'T want to lose it. I don't want to have to write my farewell and I don't want to do my final walk.
But it's the circle of the pageant world. We win, we compete, we change ourselves for the better, and then we pass on the torch to someone else. It's a cycle that improves so many women and one that I hold in high regard.
I'm going to live up these last few months as Miss Santa Barbara County 09.
It's the experience of a lifetime, after all.
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