I'M BAAAACCCKKKK!!!!!! Did ya miss me? New York was a total blast! I placed 15th out of 19 competitors....which sounds bad, but if you could have seen the caliber of competitors I was up against! Most of them had been to the Olympia at one time or another......I did lousy in the physique rounds, but scored 8th in the 2 minute routine round! Everytime I would be announced on stage, the whole audience would say "Oooowwwww" back at me. It was hysterical:) My 45 second routine music stopped before I was finished, so the other girls threw a fit for me.....and the judges let me do it all over again (when everyone else was done). So, I got to throw my routine twice! (5 minutes apart) I loved my suits, and no one else had the same color:)

Most of the girls were much more muscular than me......I was a little dinky thing next to them. After the contest we went to Little Italy and had a wonderful pasta dinner...yummmmmy! We stopped by a wonderful bakery on the way back to the hotel, and I had an eclair and took a tirmisu to go! We didn't get into bed until 1am, and I got up to go to the airport at 4:30am......my butt was draggin' to say the least. We almost didn't get out of NY due to the huge storm setting in.....thank God we missed it by a couple of hours!

I am back on the wagon with my diet.....have to look good this weekend at Emerald Cup..wink wink. My guest posing at the Or Ironman is only 3 1/2 weeks away too:) Well, I am literally falling asleep at my computer......I will write some more tomorrow about my NY trip. Train hard everyone- no excuses! Love ya,

Tami