Well another week down and that means another week closer to the pageant...EEK!!!! My weekend started with the South Central Czech Festival. We headed down to Hastings to participate and I had a BLAST! I had some wonderful Czech food and then it was time to introduce all of the queens. The other girls volunteered me to be first so I went for it. All of the other girls introduced themselves and then it was time for the re-crowning of the South Central Czech Queen as Emily is running for a 2nd year. I got to help with the crowning and the crown wouldn't fit her head! Thank goodness I wear about 100 clips in my hair when I put it up...they came in handy. I started taking clips out of my hair and putting them in hers to get it to stay. The other girls put on her sash and gave her some of the gifts and I gave her the flowers. After the coronation we took pictures with all of the beautiful royalty. I really enjoyed getting to spend some time with all of the girls. It really started to hit me that there is only a few weeks until the state pageant! These girls are such great girls and we are gonna have A BLAST in Clarkson! I also enjoy running into the Little Sister to the Miss Czech-Slovak US queen, Shayla Miller. She does a great job now and I can't wait to see her in a few years when she's in my shoes. :-D Right as I was about to leave I got asked to play the...well I have no idea what is was! LOL It was a tambourine type thing that looked like a puppet! The Kramer Sisters had me come up and play with them. Then we paraded around the whole festival while playing. It was a ton of fun but we had to get out of there because it was also my cousin Shane's graduation so we had to get back to Lincoln.
Sunday was the Valparaiso parade. I started my day having to work but got off early to run home and get dressed in my new kroj. Yes...I got to wear my new one for the first time this weekend! YAY! After I got ready we were off. I wanted to try to make it a bit early to play in the accordion jam with my accordion teacher, Brad Husak. I walked in and purposely left my accordion in the car...well that failed quickly. HAHA! BUSTED! He asked where my accordion was and I told him and mom went out to get it. Well now that I had agreed to play I tried to sneak in and play in the back...well nobody was having any of that...no way. They wanted me front and center. They pulled up a chair and Brad moved his chair down to join me. AHHHHHHHH! I was really scared but this was a lot easier to play than it was in Lincoln...not only did I have more experience but I also could hear myself play a lot better. I SURVIVED! :) After I played about 4 songs with everyone we had to head to the parade lineup. I got kind of nervous because it was about 15 mins till the parade started and they still hadn't gotten me a car yet. Brad and I were joking that we were going to walk through. I had asked Brad a few weeks before if he would be willing to go through the parade with me and play his accordion. It was so great and I think everyone really enjoyed it. Before the parade started he was playing and I was singing and everyone was clapping along as we drove through. After the parade we had a great dinner at the legion and it was time to head home. It was a great day as all of my days as queen are! :)
Only 13 days till Clarkson!!! The countdown begins!!
Na Shledanou,
Stefanie Vocasek
2009-10 Lincoln Czech-Slovak Queen
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