Don't Ruin the Basketball Game
So we're still racing through China from last week and Kent & Vyxsin are screwed... they've left their fanny pack on the gondola and are begging their bus driver to turn around and take them back.
Zev & Justin arrive 8th to the Pit Stop and Phil tells them they are still racing, the clue tells them they have to travel 400mi by train to the city of Kunming once there, they have to find Dounan Flower Market for their next clue. WARNING - there will be a Double U-Turn somewhere ahead. (Seriously? I think they really are trying to kill these teams - that'll teach them to come back for a second shot at it.) A U-Turn is when a team is forced to complete both tasks in the Detour.
-The Goths get back to the gondola and their fanny pack is waiting for them at the top... maybe their luck is finally turning around (I know, I am knocking on wood, even though this was filmed months ago ;)
-Margie & Luke are the first team to the train station at 12:01pm and find out the next train doesn't leave until 7:05pm. That gives Kent & Vyxsin 7 hours to catch up... can they do it?
-The Goths get their Chinese signs right and decide to do the Hammer detour task - Vyxsin doesn't want to try to navigate through town with the Horn - probably a good call. They get the candy hammered and are the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop - they look as sad as they can with their eyebrows painted on so high (Is it just me or are her eyebrows painted in halfway to her hairline?)
-Phil lays it on them that they are still racing and hands them the clue - to which they are very excited - then he says because they CHOSE (yeah, chose) to take an alternate flight than the one specified from Japan they will incur a 30 minute penalty which they will have to sit out before he can check them in at the NEXT Pit Stop... so they better make it there 30 minutes before another team. (Hmm, seems like they got off easy.)
-Kent says they are going to keep the penalty to themselves because they will definitely be a target for the U-Turn if the other teams found out.
-At the train station the rest of the teams are waiting the 7 (or so) hours until their train leaves. One of the Cowboys noticed a basketball goal (yes, he called it a goal) and knew the Globetrotters had a basketball so they played a little 3 on 3 - Jet, Flight Time and Kisha vs Cord, Big Easy and Jen - with the Redheads cheerleading (of course) and Luke as referee. Jet - Who would have thought, here we are, 2 cowboys, playing basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters in China - it was like playing with trees. (ha ha, yeah, they were a little outmatched - but everyone was having a great time.)
-Zev & Justin show up and tell everyone that Kent & Vyxsin were on their way, having shown up at the Roadblock about 10 minutes before they finished. Someone shouts out - Don't ruin the basketball game. (LOL - that's hilarious - just goes to show how precious that break from the Race was to them all.)
-Kent & Vyxsin show up finally and everyone is in the train station now waiting for the train - Right away the sharks are circling - What happened - What's your penalty? - Kent sticks with the car broke down in Japan story causing them to miss their flight and he just says they're not sure what they're going to do yet in terms of a penalty. No one quite buys that story but what can they do? The Goths are there now and everyone is on the same train - even steven again. (Yeah, enough about that – Who won the basketball game? They don’t tell us.)
-They get on the train and find out the sleeper cars are 3 bunks high - yikes - Zev & Justin are on the top which they think provides less chance of murder (and harder to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.) But then, who else could they stick up there? Big Easy? That would be murder by bunk of the two people sleeping below him when it came crashing down.
-The train arrives in Kunming at 5:30am and they all hit the streets running. Kisha & Jen's cab driver seems to know where they want to go. Ron & Christina jump in a cab and speaking the language are able to tell him where to go - Zev & Justin, the Redheads and the Goths are following (seems like a sound plan to me.) The double U-Turn is hanging heavy over all of them today - and Vyxsin doesn't have her eyebrows on... she looks better with no eyebrows.
-Kisha & Jen are the first to the clue box at the flower market and the clue tells them to make their way to 'The Golden Arches' - no, not McDonalds - memorial arches to get the next clue. They take off.
-Zev & Justin are the next to the clue box just ahead of Ron & Christina which seems to piss her off - Justin asks if we can come with you guys and she sarcastically says yeah (but I think she meant "fat chance.")
-Everyone is getting there fast and furious and telling their cab drivers to wait for them. Everyone is finding the cluebox and heading back out - but the Globetrotters get a little lost and end up last to the clue box - the Cowboys get back out to the street and don't see their cab... so they take they only one still there - the Globetrotter's... Now the Globetrotters are stranded at the flower market. (Uh oh - Bad Cowboys.)
-They do find another cab and it didn't look like it took too long but now they're playing catch up.
-Ron & Christina and Zev & Justin are the first two teams to the arches (Huh, I guess she did mean yes.)
DETOUR - Honor the Past or Embrace the Future.
-In Honor the Past the teams must watch a traditional Tibetan performance and without taking any notes must then go behind a curtain and place 15 dolls, dressed like the performers, in the same order in which they appeared on stage. When the dolls stand correctly, teams will receive their next clue.
-In Embrace the Future, teams must off-load a complete solar water heating system from a truck, carry it to the roof of a building and correctly install all the tubes to receive their next clue.
-Ron & Christina decide to do Honor the Past and their shadows Zev & Justin are right behind them.
-Margie & Luke get to the clue box and decide to do Embrace the Future - Margie thinks installing the tubes will be an easier task - Really?
- Kisha & Jen are doing the memory one.
-The Goths, Cowboys, Redheads and Gary & Mallory - have been taken to McDonalds by their cab drivers... Ha ha ha - that is too funny - well I guess not for them but you can't blame the drivers for thinking a bunch of Americans asking to go to the Golden Arches wanted a cheeseburger...
-Which means the Globetrotters are the next team to the clue box and they want to Embrace the Future - but when they ask their cab driver if she knows the place - silence... and I must say that their lady driver looks like the bus driver on South Park - all she needs is a bird in her hair and it's her.
So we're still racing through China from last week and Kent & Vyxsin are screwed... they've left their fanny pack on the gondola and are begging their bus driver to turn around and take them back.
Zev & Justin arrive 8th to the Pit Stop and Phil tells them they are still racing, the clue tells them they have to travel 400mi by train to the city of Kunming once there, they have to find Dounan Flower Market for their next clue. WARNING - there will be a Double U-Turn somewhere ahead. (Seriously? I think they really are trying to kill these teams - that'll teach them to come back for a second shot at it.) A U-Turn is when a team is forced to complete both tasks in the Detour.
-The Goths get back to the gondola and their fanny pack is waiting for them at the top... maybe their luck is finally turning around (I know, I am knocking on wood, even though this was filmed months ago ;)
-Margie & Luke are the first team to the train station at 12:01pm and find out the next train doesn't leave until 7:05pm. That gives Kent & Vyxsin 7 hours to catch up... can they do it?
-The Goths get their Chinese signs right and decide to do the Hammer detour task - Vyxsin doesn't want to try to navigate through town with the Horn - probably a good call. They get the candy hammered and are the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop - they look as sad as they can with their eyebrows painted on so high (Is it just me or are her eyebrows painted in halfway to her hairline?)
-Phil lays it on them that they are still racing and hands them the clue - to which they are very excited - then he says because they CHOSE (yeah, chose) to take an alternate flight than the one specified from Japan they will incur a 30 minute penalty which they will have to sit out before he can check them in at the NEXT Pit Stop... so they better make it there 30 minutes before another team. (Hmm, seems like they got off easy.)
-Kent says they are going to keep the penalty to themselves because they will definitely be a target for the U-Turn if the other teams found out.
-At the train station the rest of the teams are waiting the 7 (or so) hours until their train leaves. One of the Cowboys noticed a basketball goal (yes, he called it a goal) and knew the Globetrotters had a basketball so they played a little 3 on 3 - Jet, Flight Time and Kisha vs Cord, Big Easy and Jen - with the Redheads cheerleading (of course) and Luke as referee. Jet - Who would have thought, here we are, 2 cowboys, playing basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters in China - it was like playing with trees. (ha ha, yeah, they were a little outmatched - but everyone was having a great time.)
-Zev & Justin show up and tell everyone that Kent & Vyxsin were on their way, having shown up at the Roadblock about 10 minutes before they finished. Someone shouts out - Don't ruin the basketball game. (LOL - that's hilarious - just goes to show how precious that break from the Race was to them all.)
-Kent & Vyxsin show up finally and everyone is in the train station now waiting for the train - Right away the sharks are circling - What happened - What's your penalty? - Kent sticks with the car broke down in Japan story causing them to miss their flight and he just says they're not sure what they're going to do yet in terms of a penalty. No one quite buys that story but what can they do? The Goths are there now and everyone is on the same train - even steven again. (Yeah, enough about that – Who won the basketball game? They don’t tell us.)
-They get on the train and find out the sleeper cars are 3 bunks high - yikes - Zev & Justin are on the top which they think provides less chance of murder (and harder to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.) But then, who else could they stick up there? Big Easy? That would be murder by bunk of the two people sleeping below him when it came crashing down.
-The train arrives in Kunming at 5:30am and they all hit the streets running. Kisha & Jen's cab driver seems to know where they want to go. Ron & Christina jump in a cab and speaking the language are able to tell him where to go - Zev & Justin, the Redheads and the Goths are following (seems like a sound plan to me.) The double U-Turn is hanging heavy over all of them today - and Vyxsin doesn't have her eyebrows on... she looks better with no eyebrows.
-Kisha & Jen are the first to the clue box at the flower market and the clue tells them to make their way to 'The Golden Arches' - no, not McDonalds - memorial arches to get the next clue. They take off.
-Zev & Justin are the next to the clue box just ahead of Ron & Christina which seems to piss her off - Justin asks if we can come with you guys and she sarcastically says yeah (but I think she meant "fat chance.")
-Everyone is getting there fast and furious and telling their cab drivers to wait for them. Everyone is finding the cluebox and heading back out - but the Globetrotters get a little lost and end up last to the clue box - the Cowboys get back out to the street and don't see their cab... so they take they only one still there - the Globetrotter's... Now the Globetrotters are stranded at the flower market. (Uh oh - Bad Cowboys.)
-They do find another cab and it didn't look like it took too long but now they're playing catch up.
-Ron & Christina and Zev & Justin are the first two teams to the arches (Huh, I guess she did mean yes.)
DETOUR - Honor the Past or Embrace the Future.
-In Honor the Past the teams must watch a traditional Tibetan performance and without taking any notes must then go behind a curtain and place 15 dolls, dressed like the performers, in the same order in which they appeared on stage. When the dolls stand correctly, teams will receive their next clue.
-In Embrace the Future, teams must off-load a complete solar water heating system from a truck, carry it to the roof of a building and correctly install all the tubes to receive their next clue.
-Ron & Christina decide to do Honor the Past and their shadows Zev & Justin are right behind them.
-Margie & Luke get to the clue box and decide to do Embrace the Future - Margie thinks installing the tubes will be an easier task - Really?
- Kisha & Jen are doing the memory one.
-The Goths, Cowboys, Redheads and Gary & Mallory - have been taken to McDonalds by their cab drivers... Ha ha ha - that is too funny - well I guess not for them but you can't blame the drivers for thinking a bunch of Americans asking to go to the Golden Arches wanted a cheeseburger...
-Which means the Globetrotters are the next team to the clue box and they want to Embrace the Future - but when they ask their cab driver if she knows the place - silence... and I must say that their lady driver looks like the bus driver on South Park - all she needs is a bird in her hair and it's her.-Ron & Christina and Zev & Justin arrive at the Honor theatre and Christina tells Justin to say "Duoih'ouh" to the cab driver to make him wait - Say what?
-They head inside and have to put on costumes themselves - with hats that look like yellow tassled lamshades (I swear the producers have outdone themselves so far this race with making them dress up for everything.) The pairs are splitting the memorizing into the first 7 and last 8... we'll see how that goes.
-Margie & Luke get to the solar water tube task and put on their hard hats (that's right, safety first.) They each grab a whole box of the tubes and try to haul them up the stairs on their backs but they're really heavy, I don't think Margie's going to be able to do it herself.
-Meanwhile the Redheads have found the clue box - it was across the street and the Goths see them go.
-Redheads and Goths decide to embrace the future.
-Gary & Mallory and the Cowboys finally ask someone where the Arches are and find the clue box - making the Cowboys currently in last place (Karma getting them already for stealing that cab.)
-Kisha & Jen get to the theatre and suit up - Zev & Justin get their line up checked but they are wrong - Ron is being Ron - I never played with dolls... (it's not about the dolls - sheesh.) Kisha & Jen start on the dolls - Don't talk. Ron & Christina also get it wrong and have to head back out to check the order.
-Zev & Justin get it right and get the next clue... will they wait? Caution Double U-Turn ahead... oh, probably not. The clue is a picture of a building where they need to go.
-Kisha & Jen get the order right first try and get the clue. Both teams are out on the street asking people if they know the place - trying to get someone to take them...
-When Ron & Christina get the order right and come out with the clue - they now have 2 team shadows as Christina could read the writing on the building and knows where to go. Everyone jumps in their cabs.
-Luke & Margie now have all their tubes on the roof and the real fun begins - trying to assemble the thing.
-South Park driver couldn't find the Embrace the future place so the Globetrotters had to stop for directions.
-Redheads have arrived at the solar tube task and they are schlepping the heavy box up the stairs.
-Margie & Luke finish and get the clue - they head down as Kent & Vyxsin are bickering their way up the stairs with the heavy tubes - yes, she was doing all the heavy lifting.
-The Cowboys also arrive to start on Embracing the Future (I'm kind of surprised how many of them went for the more physically challenging task over the simple memory task - I guess it's harder to think than to just do when you're in those circumstances. Tired/Hungry/Stressed)
-Gary & Mallory have opted for Honor the past and arrive at the theatre. Mallory has a good memory for this type of thing - I think they'll do well.
-The Globetrotters have stumbled upon the task finally and they start hoofing the boxes up the stairs - Kent & Vyxsin are still bickering about it - he's delicate.
-The Redheads are done and head out - they say they will U-Turn someone. The Cowboys are done and they head out.
-Ron & Christina and their posse get to the cultural centre... As they are all running to the place Justin is saying no need to be dirty, we're in the front (talking about the U-Turn) but it's the wrong place - the cab driver took them to the wrong place - so even speaking the language doesn't mean you're home free in China. They all jump back in their cabs.
-Margie & Luke are the first team to the U-Turn and they decide not to U-Turn anyone. (Nice) They now have to make their way outside of the city to the Stone Forest to get their next clue. She says they're in first place, there was no need to U-Turn anyone.
-The Goths finish the solar tubes and get the clue - leaving the Globetrotters as the last team at that task.
-Gary & Mallory get their doll order correct and they get their clue too.
-The Cowboys are the next team to the U-Turn and they decide not to U-Turn anyone and take off with their clue. The Goths and Redheads are both looking for the U-Turn and the Cowboys tell them where it is - foot race and Kent & Vyxsin reach the box first with Jaime & Cara right on top of them telling them to U-Turn the Globetrotters - Kent sorts through the pictures and U-Turns... The REDHEADS! (Hahaha - Kent's got bigger cojones than I gave him credit for.) He says, "Sorry, it's the only way we'll survive." (And I want to kiss his lily white face.) Jaime, "Unbelievable." (Can a U-Turned team still U-Turn another team?)
-After the commercial Kent reminds us that on their first time on the Race one of their fatal mistakes was U-Turning a team that was already ahead of them - so he looked at the Readheads and knew 100% that team was behind them... he had to put a bullet in a Playboy bunny to stay in the race. (and it was Awesome!)
-Oh and the Redheads were still able to U-Turn the Globetrotters so both the U-Turns have been set and only half the teams have gotten there so far.
-Next Zev/Justin, Gary/Mallory, Kisha/Jen and Ron/Christina get to the U-Turn and are relieved that they've all been spared. Kisha & Jen's driver says he knows where to go and they all head out following that car except Ron & Christina who can direct their driver themselves.
-The Redheads arrive at the theatre to Honor the Past... The Globetrotters get to the U-Turn last and see they've been U-Turned by the Redheads... not happy.
-Kisha tells their driver to lose the other two teams following them (oh, evil) he makes a sharp right and Justin is kicking himself for leaving Ron & Christina.
-The Redheads get the order correct and get the clue which takes them back to the U-Turn where they get the clue to the stone forest...
-The Globetrotters get to the theatre and they get the order right away - get the clue -go back and get the other clue...
-The Redhead's cab has to stop for gas - which sets Jaime off - this happened to them on the race before and she was just as gracious to that driver. We're in a race!
-Kisha & Jen arrive at the Stone Forest - ROADBLOCK - Who's ready for a task 65 million years in the making? In this Roadblock one person will have to assemble a life size model of a dinosaur skeleton. They'll choose a 'dig' site, collect the bones and using a diagram for reference have to put together a 20ft dilaposaurus. If they do it correctly, they'll get their next clue.
-Kisha is doing it for them.
-Ron & Christina arrive and Margie & Luke - and the girls are doing the assembly.
-Kent & Vyxsin get there and he's up for this one - I love dinosaurs.
-Vyxsin goes and waits with the other racers and Jen asks her why they U-Turned and Vyxsin spills it - we have a 30 minute penalty and we didn't mean to lie but we kind of fudged around the truth... (Why, why do you tell? She is definitely the brawn of the operation.) Ron thinks they are just big ol' liars now - they are Kabuki dancers hiding behind their masks very well (grudgingly, I will admit that was very insightful of him.)
-Back on the road the Globetrotter's taxi passes the Redheads - see ya!
-Zev & Justin and Gary & Mallory are still lost since the sister's ditched them - Justin successfully (hopefully) communicates stone (by picking up a rock) and forest (by hitting a tree) and they head out again.
-The Cowboys arrive at the Stone Forest and Jet is doing the assembling.
-The Globetrotters get there and Big Easy is doing it - says they passed those dirty redheads.
-The Redheads get there and Jaime is doing the assembling.
-Kisha & Christina have both had to restart - unsafe... they have to make sure all the joins are locked in correctly or they could get crushed under an unsteady dinosaur.
-Zev & Justin and Gary & Mallory are the last teams to arrive - Justin is doing the assembling for them and Gary & Mallory survey the scene - see they are dead last and this is a toughie - decide to use their Express Pass they won on the very first day - they get the clue to the Pit Stop: Green Lake Park.
-Jet is the first one finished the dinosaur - and if Jaime's look could kill he'd be six feet under right now - Off they go.
-So Flight Time asks Cara, what was up with U-Turning us, she says it started with them, pointing to Vyxsin who spills again that they have a 30 minute penalty - then my recording cut out a bit but Flight Time said he thinks the Redheads were just being mean. (Still admitting to these people that you totally lied to their faces is not a smart strategy... I don't think Vyxsin gets that - and I'm sure Kent is not going to be happy with her.)
-The Cowboys pass Gary & Mallory in the parking lot - they get the first cab and take off which makes Mallory livid (well, as livid as she gets I think, she's just a little short with the driver.)
-Justin has to fix a join but they're wedged in there and he can't get it apart. Margie is the next one to complete her dinosaur which she said she was doing for her 4 year old grandson who loves dinosaurs and she misses terribly (sniffle) (aw, now suck it up grandma!)
-Kent keeps getting them to check his dinosaur but he's wrong and can't figure out how to fix it - looks like he's got some long bones in the wrong places... Vyxsin is worried - if they don't get to the Pit Stop a full 30 minutes before another team they are done. His step stool folds and he falls.
-Kent figures out what he did wrong finally and he has to pull it apart and start over - but he knows what to do now. Jaime is starting to lose it, she's also fallen off the ladder and starts shedding clothing (much to the paleontologists delight) but she's having trouble breathing (is she asthmatic?)
-Kisha finishes the dinosaur and they're out. Then Kent finishes finally and they could still have a shot...
-Big Easy finishes quickly (probably because he didn't need to use the stepstool at all) and they shout "Double U-Turn" right in the Redheads faces... Double U-Turn that!
-And then there were 3 - Christina, Justin and Jaime working on the dinosaurs.
-Christina is the next to finish and she almost cries - that took her a long time.
-Justin finally gets the clue and Jaime realizes one of the first pelvic boards needs to be flipped - she doesn't think she can physically rip it apart and put it back together again... pure, miserable torture.
Here's How they finished:
1) Jet & Cord - they won $5K cash each.
2) Gary & Mallory - still all smiles but kinda disappointed.
3) Margie & Luke - yay
> Kent & Vyxsin... but they have to wait out their 30 minute penalty...
4) Kisha & Jen - good show
5) Kent & Vyxsin - #5 is Alive!
6) Flight Time & Big Easy - Double U-Turn that baby.
7) Ron & Christina
8) Zev & Justin
9) Jaime & Cara - Cara, again talks for Phil (which I hate) "You are the last team to arrive" and this time they are ELIMINATED from the Race. (B-bye.) Phil says things just didn't go your way - Jaime, "They never go our way." (And if you keep being a Negative Nelly they never will.) They wish they could have won but not everyone can win - they think it was worth it to come back. (Whatever.)
So, with the Redheads elimination that means Ryan H, Kim B, Roxanne S, Carol-Anne D and Tommy D are out of the pool.
Next week they're in Calcutta, India and a massive tea tasting brings Luke to his breaking point - oh no, there is ugly crying...
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
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