Feb 10th-Feb 15th - NYC & Miss USA Headshot Photo Shoot!

On Monday I was supposed to have a casting for First Niagara Bank but I had to head out of town for a modeling job. Michael Evans from Miss New York USA set me up with Click Models Pennsylvania so that I could continue to do some modeling while being a titleholder. I found out that I had a direct booking for Boscov's so I left Rochester on a bus and went back to New York City.

My good friend Dennise let me stay at her apartment again and the next morning I took a bus to Reading, Pennsylvania for the photo shoot. 

The whole team was so nice and I had a great day working with them! After, I took a bus back to the city and decided to stay there since my Miss USA headshot photo shoot was scheduled for that weekend. The next couple of days I hung out at the apartment and worked on filling out my Miss USA profile where I had to write a lengthy paragraph for each question and there were over fifty questions. The pets at the apartment kept me company while I worked!

  

Meanwhile Mike was in Las Vegas because he is friends with Daughtry and they were performing at the Cosmopolitan. I wanted to be there and I also wished that we could be together because Friday was Valentine's Day! Mike went to dinner with Daughtry at STK and they brought a diamond knife to their table for them to take a picture with. Then Mike and some friends went to the show and had a great time. 

Mike's cousin David and his wife Casta knew that I was alone in the city and they were so sweet to invite me over to have dinner with them. The food was delicious and we had fun catching up!

Even though I couldn't be with Mike on Valentine's Day we constantly celebrate our love and I don't take a single day for granted. I love you so much Mike! <3

The next morning I had my photo shoot with Fadil Berisha to get my Miss USA headshot! My teen, Corrin, and I went in together and we had a fun team with the wardrobe stylist Blair Berisha, the hairstylist Erol Karadag, and the makeup artist Yuko Takahashi. I had followed Yuko's work in the past so it was fun working together!

Fadil took some pictures of me by myself and some with Corrin. Miss Tennessee USA, Kristy Landers Niedenfuer, was also there shooting so we did an extra look together which was cool. 

Corrin and I had a great time and we were excited to see how the pictures came out! The shoot was near Gramercy Park Hotel where I used to work at Maialino so I asked Corrin and her parents if they wanted to go there to eat after we were done. It was busy there for brunch on the weekend but the maitre d' Roger was so kind to accommodate us. Some of the managers and staff I knew from when I worked there too and they were so sweet telling me of their support of my journey. We had an incredibly delicious brunch. I had been craving the ricotta pancakes! 

Afterwards they dropped me off at Dennise's on their way out of the city and I packed to get ready to go to Connecticut the next day!