Red Carpet Welcome Event

Miss USA and the 51 contestants at the Miss USA Red Carpet Welcome Event.

I was up bright and early at 7:15AM to get hair and make up done for interviews. Now this was a very long process. We did our web interviews and NBC interviews this day.

Ready and excited for the Welcome Event!

I waited, and waited some more, 4-5 hours to be exact! We had to be sure to be quiet, not to interrupt the interviews going on in the other rooms. Luckily, I had about 10-15 other girls waiting with me, so we whispered and got to chit chat quietly.

Patiently waiting, I was next in line! I went into a quiet room where I was asked numerous questions in front of a camera on the spot. Check out my web-interview to see which questions they chose to put online!

With Miss USA at the Red Carpet Event.

And by 3:00PM, I was done with registration! It was back to my room, and I got ready for the Red Carpet Welcome Event at Planet Hollywood. I was surprised when I arrived at my room with a fabulous gift bag full of goodies on my bag! Like I said, they made us work hard, but rewarded us with "Star" treatment. Our many sponsors for Miss USA filled a bag with a HD flip video camera, journey necklace, Chi styling products and straightening iron, Same Sky bracelet, Miss USA robe, Kandy Wrappers Gift Certificate, Pjs, make up, and much much more! How can you not be extremely thankful in this situation!

Introductions.

We dressed up in our cocktail dresses and were on our way to the Red Carpet Welcome Event held outside of Planet Hollywood. There were tons of people gathered around. We each got to walk up to the microphone and introduce ourselves. Miss Kentucky caused a little controversy by passing out during the middle of it. Heat and exhaustion were the causes, but they rushed to her side and immediately took her to get help and feeling better.

Miss MO, Miss MI and I at the Caesars Palace Meet and Greet.

Then it was off to a meet and greet at Caesars Palace, followed by dinner at an Italian restaurant at Caesars. We were dined with a luxurious four course meal with about four dishes per course! It definitely hit the spot after a long day!

Our fun table at dinner!

We had a really fun group of girls at the table! This was the relaxing part of the day. We got to get to know each other and just sit back and enjoy our meal. Soon after dinner, it was back to the hotel and straight to bed! Day 2 flew by! I was excited for everything to come!

Yours truly,

Belinda