As everyone knows, Fiesta is 10 days of non-stop adventure. This year, I met many new best friends and partied like a rock star with Fiesta royalty. Needless to say, after Fiesta, I'm gonna siesta!

(Left) Matt and Kelly Strange with Nicole and Lyndon Nugent at the Town Club party. Lyndon is the grandson of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. (Right) Margie Rust (left) and Clifton McNeel (right) held a party to commemorate the 1963 Court of Beauty.  Joe Carroll Williams (center) served as Margie's escort that year.

(Left) Battle of Flowers Association members Renee Sethness, Rhonda Calvert and Joan Hinchey became my newest best friends during the parade. (Right) Mila and her father, Fiesta Flambeau Association President Michael Flores, enjoyed brunch at the Alamo along with the Battle of Flowers Association.

(Left) Fiesta First Lady Weisie Steen and Fiesta Commission President John Steen at the Battle of Flowers parade.  John is also chairman of the TABC. (Right) Amy Voorhies, Kim Tylman and Nichole Gottsacker partied with King Antonio Billy Atwell at the Town Club Fiesta party.

(Left) Jeanette and Steve Buffkin (Town Club secretary/treasurer) and Tammy and Lawson Walden (Town Club president) were my hosts for this fabulous black-tie event. (Right) Rugger and Nicole Gottsacker, Charlie and Kim LeMaster, Tony and Kim Tylman and Lori and Stacy Shivers partied with the Town Club during Fiesta.

(Left) Annabell and George Ames at The Court of 1963 reunion luncheon. Annabell is the only woman to serve as Fiesta Queen two years in a row when that the Queen of 1964 became ill. George Ames served as her prime minister and, eventually, her devoted husband. (Right) While lunching with Lynn Huntress (left) and the court of 1963, the Court of 1940 (that's right--1940!) was having a reunion. Dorothy Steves Hindman (right) served as the Princess of the Court of the Old South that year.

(Left) Adrianna Biggs, Dorothy Basso, Beverly Brown, Melissa Rubiola, Courtney Schultz, Wendy Thorn, Adrianne Frost, Mary Beth Mosbacker and Brooke Rosser (not pictured) were the hostesses with the mostessest for the annual Los Dilettantes event held at the home of Cory and Dorothy Basso. (Right) Battle of Flowers Association board members Amanda Macdaniel, Rhonda Calvert, Melissa Vaughan, Alison Boone, Susan Lane, Sally Haas and Jeannie Wehmeyer greeted guests at the annual Battle of Flowers Fiesta luncheon.

(Left) Fiesta Queen Emmy Rogers shows her shoes! (Right) Fiesta Princess Callie Mortimer waves to the crowd during the Battle of Flowers Parade.  Callie was crowned on her 23rd birthday.