NOTE: This is transcribed from my original iphone note - date 2/13/10
After a night of Las Vegas debauchery that included a massive bodypainted takeover of The Voodoo Lounge, today's strolling of the strip was far more low-key. We went to the gallery where our friend Craig Tracy was having an opening of his bodypainting art in the Miracle Mile Shops. Craig is also coincidentally, here as a judge for the competition, being a former World Bodypainting Festival champion and judge. Craig's girlfriend, Lauren and I had lunch and shopped a bit (Can you say Sephora?!!) as well.
Tonight's main event is the stage presentation of today's paintings, including all of the airbrush and the rest of our category. Kristen made quite a splash with her presentation, which happened last night. The stage presentation, designed to thrill the audience, counts only towards the "Model's Trophy". The paintings are all judged prior to the stage show.
Post-presentation, the official nail-biting commences. They announce the finalists in reverse order of placement, beginning with #25 and carrying on through #1. The artists take the stage as they are called. We hear Rachel called around #17. We keep waiting and watching as artists who did paintings we really liked (and possibly thought were better than ours) were brought to the stage. When they announced the artist who I knew had done Scott's personal favorite painting in for #3, my heart leaped into my throat! Could it be we DIDN'T make it after all? Could we be in the TOP two? The tension broke in a wave as Scott's name rang out for #2 and we clasped hands and headed to the stage, all smiles and SO relieved!!!
Oh my god... we've got to do this ALL AGAIN -- TOMORROW!!!
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