Lunch with a couple beauts

I had lunch with a couple beauties this today. Leslie Goldsmith and her daughter Rebecca - a/k/a Miss Iowa. We met at Noodle Zoo near my work. I thought I was just meeting my name doppelganger - the other Leslie G., so meeting Rebecca was a surprise!

I got to hear about Rebecca's experience in Vegas these past few weeks as she competed for the title of Miss USA - ultimately won by Miss California. She had to change clothes 3 times a day - so she took 51 changes of clothes that were all pre-vetted by the pageant folks. As they didn't ship any of them ahead, her mother wisely suggested that she slap on her Miss Iowa sash in the airport so the airline folks might take pity on them when it came to luggage fees. Even so it cost something like $88 bucks - but they did let Rebecca haul extra stuff on board.

She roomed with Miss Wisconsin and that went okay. They didn't have a second to rest - hustling about each day to filming locations and appearances. Evenings they were in casinos at meet and greets. Rebecca still has false eyelashes on that sounded devilish to get applied! She was headed to the Iowa Newspaper Association the afternoon after our lunch for an interview. A busy girl yet!

Leslie and I had a few minutes to catch up - she's had some health issues, check ups etc, but luckily all is well. Paul (her spouse) is suffering from what may be a torn rotator cuff. We think meeting for an Iowa Cubs game could be fun in July. So that's the plan - our fellas haven't gotten together for a long while! It's fun being friends with ourselves. And I'm glad to have a new friend in Rebecca (and we're Facebook friends too).