Go Out and Get It Done (Atlanta, Ga)
Our final 3 teams are: Jeremy & Sandy (the dating and bickering couple), Cindy & Ernie (the control freak and her minion) and Marcus & Amani (the comeback kids, throwing a Hail Mary pass on the 4th down at the Super Bowl ;)
12:04am - Jeremy & Sandy are the first team to get the clue to fly to Atlanta, Ga - Sandy says "Oh no, this sucks." Once they touch down they must make their way to FlightSafety International to get their next clue. (I still don't know why Atlanta sucks.) Oh, Marcus & Amani live in Atlanta, Cindy & Ernie have experience there and Jeremy & Sandy have never been - I get it now.
12:05am - Cindy & Ernie are the next to leave and Cindy is also disheartened that Marcus & Amani are going to have such an advantage since they're heading to their hometown. They've seen the race as the best pre-marital counseling (and they've done pretty well I think.)
12:06am - Amani & Marcus are squealing happy to be heading to Atlanta! Amani, "So excited. We've made a lot of comebacks to be here." Marcus, "Now it's on to the Super Bowl... with home field advantage." (hahaha, now I just laugh at every football reference - if it was a drinking game we'd all be sloshed every Sunday night.)
They are all on the same flight, leaving at 8:30am. Game is on!
Once they land it is a sprint to the taxis - Jeremy & Sandy are the first team to get a taxi that will take them without the address - he has GPS. He gets on his phone and Sandy tells him not to tell the other drivers (yeah, especially after last leg, that killed my beloved snowboarders... but I'm not bitter.)
-Amani & Marcus asked a guy in the airport who looked up the address for them and they hop in a cab.
-Ernie & Cindy get a driver to let them in the cab and she asks to borrow his phone so she can look up where to go.
-They all arrive at FlightSafety one after the other. Route Info - they will take to the skies in a Learjet flight simulator, having to land successfully from a simulated 2500ft - once they've completed the task to the instructors satisfaction, they'll receive their next clue.
-Jeremy & Sandy are the first team heading into the simulator and, true to form, Sandy starts complaining that she's going to get motion sick, blah, blah, blah - (Really? Could you start off positive just once?) Jeremy is excited to be the pilot. Sandy, "I'm going to throw up."
-Marcus & Amani are getting in their simulator right after them - How real does this look? Marcus is not very excited, he's never liked flying. Amani is also wishing she took a motion sickness pill.
-Ernie & Cindy are the last team to arrive and head in. Ernie is flying and Cindy tells him to get it right the first time. (He's been told.)
They are all "flying" - and the co-pilot's job is to maintain air speed - Cindy was so focused on making sure Ernie was doing everything right, she let them slow down to the point they fell out of the sky - FAIL! And it was her fault (ha!)
-Marcus & Amani come in for their landing, it's a little hard and then he veered off the runway (I was yelling - Whoooaaa! Where are you going?)
-Jeremy & Sandy nailed it on the first try. (Huh, and she didn't throw up - go figure.) They get the next clue - Find the former residence known as The Dump - apparently the former residence of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind.
-Jeremy & Sandy get back to their cab and realize they were the first one's out and they're pumped. Their driver doesn't know what "the Dump" is so they are going to go to a main street and ask somebody (mobile shout out - for you Cash Cab watchers.)
-Meanwhile back in the simulators - Marcus has asked for taxi instructions before they have landed - which is wrong - so they failed their second attempt. Marcus, "Third times the charm."
-Ernie successfully lands their 2nd attempt and they get the clue to head for "The Dump." In the cab Cindy asks to use the cabbie's phone.
-Marcus' third attempt to land and when he hits the ground they go veering off again... (This is why I can never play driving games, I'm forever driving off course... but I've never played for a million dollars before.) 4th attempt and there is no-nonsense happening now - but the same result. Fail.
-Jeremy & Sandy are told 'the Dump' is the old Home Depot store...(Uh, no.)
-Cindy finds out from someone she calls that it's Margaret Mitchell's house and their driver knows it - they are off in the right direction.
-The teams in the cabs are going on about how nerve wracking this is. Sandy is going to have to go on Prilosec when she gets home (that's a heartburn drug - and she could have a future as a pharmaceutical rep)
-Cindy & Ernie say losing to either of the other two teams would be like being an A student and losing to a C+ student (yeah, that was Cindy.) He says it would have been one thing losing to the boys but this would be like losing to your brother... ??
-Back in the simulator - we are again veering off the runway.
-Jeremy & Sandy get to the former Home Depot... it is now a huge store called The Dump. They walk inside and Jeremy is going, "former residence known as the dump... former RESIDENCE?" They ask a guy working there if it's the former residence and he says it still is the Dump. So they start running through the place looking for a clue box. Sandy, "Are we idiots and in the wrong spot." (YES) Jeremy, "I don't know." (I do.)
-Ernie & Cindy arrive at Margaret Mitchell's house & museum - a woman in period costume is sitting right outside and hand them the clue to the ROADBLOCK: Who gives a damn?
-Working with an old fashioned typewriter in the same room where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind - teams must type out their next clue. They will soon discover there is no key for the number one and will have to use the lowercase L in it's place. When Colonel Sanders (he said the Southern Gentleman, but come on, the tie.. it's the Colonel) believes it is typed to perfection, they'll receive their next clue.
-They have to decide who's going to do the task before they open it so Ernie says he gives a damn - and they find out it's typing and are pissed! She's a way faster typist (did you expect a physical challenge at the old time-y author's house?) He's not very fast.
-Marcus is still in the grass - and nearly punches a hole through the roof of the simulator.
-Jeremy & Sandy finally decide to ask someone else what the former residence known as the dump is and borrow a customer's smart phone.
-Cindy is still lamenting her decision not to step up and do the task and Ernie is looking for white out... not a good sign.
-Jeremy finds out they need to go to Margaret Mitchell's house - they take off.
-Ernie has gotten to the part where he needs to type a '1' - and he's stumped. He tries the 'i' - not good. He decides to look at the typeface on the actual striking arms of the typewriting looking for something that looks like a '1' and it was the lower case 'L'. He completes the task and can leave with the clue he just typed - but the clue is just numbers: 44-715-74.
They have to figure out this is Hank Aaron's number - his record of 715 home runs in 1974 - is commemorated on the outside of Turner Field, this is where they'll find their next clue.
-Cindy gets on the cab driver's phone again and calls information? maybe - they can't figure out what the numbers are - they head to the nearest hotel.
-Jeremy & Sandy have arrived at Margaret Mitchell's house and Jeremy volunteers Sandy to give a damn... he's at least aware enough that this would be a thinking challenge - it's all her. She's getting paper in the typewriter but she's Sandy about using the thing (this is so old, I don't know... I just want to smack her.)
-Ernie & Cindy get to a hotel and the guy at the front desk let's them come around and use Google on his computer "Just this one time." (Dude, it's going to be on TV, hopefully your boss isn't watching.)
-Sandy has gotten to the "1" and doesn't know what to do.
-Marcus has finally landed them successfully. He said once he stopped thinking about the rest of the race and took a deep breath - he knocked it out. That was a pass in the end zone that he dropped. (Drink!) They don't know what the former residence known as the Dump is.
In the cab he's beating himself up - he got to the Super bowl and he couldn't complete it - she says, "If you were in the end zone you'd still have been my target." (Oh no, now it's both of them - I'sh trying not to slur my typing. ;)
-Ernie & Cindy find out it's Hank Aaron's number and home run record - they ask the desk guy if there is a statue or memorial to him and they find out it's Turner Field.
-Sandy is staring at the typewriter willing a 1 to appear... but she figures it out and gets the Colonel's approval. Back out in their cab, they want to Google the numbers.
-Ernie & Cindy get to Turner Field and find the clue box - Route Info: Huge map challenge. One team member must get hooked up to ropes and suspended from the huge billboard of a map of the world. The other team member will yell out directions and without using any notes, they must successfully map their Race around the world on the billboard/map. (Yikes.)
-Cindy is the one going up in the harness. "Holy Bananas." They have to plot their course with red ropes hooked through caribeeners. She's doing well
-Marcus & Amani get to Margaret Mitchell's house and Amani says he gives a damn - so Marcus' is typing and not happy about it. Where's the one?
-Jeremy & Sandy ask at a hotel what the numbers are and are told to head to Turner Field.
-Cindy is flying through the mapping - it helps to have a grasp of geography - she has to pull the rope a couple times to make sure she has enough slack to make it home to the USA ... but really, this was no challenge for her - they get the final clue - to make their way to Swan House - Go Go GO!
-Jeremy & Sandy arrive at Turner Field and Jeremy is heading up onto the flag. She's doing a lot of directing and they've missed Indonesia...
-Ernie & Cindy are really happy their cab driver has GPS... and then he misses a turn and they're in GPS hell - re-calculating...
-Jeremy & Sandy get a thumbs down and realize they missed Indonesia... he puts it in and they are given the clue to the finish line. Go Go GO!
Both these teams are driving to the finish... and they cut it so we don't know until...
CINDY & ERNIE run through the gates - They are the winners of the Amazing Race!
-They want to start an organization to multiply the million and help out those in need and stimulate the global economy (that was very vague and sweeping... good luck with that.)
-Ernie says his family is probably passed out and Cindy says her parents would say, "I knew you'd win." Her parents have an expectation that she be the best and hopefully they've proven that they are the best together. (Tiger parents drama.) The Race was the best pre-marital counseling imaginable - they are very happy to have each other. (Awww.)
So, with Cindy & Ernie winning the Amazing Race, we have Miranne D, Andria S, Kelvin H and Fred/Gary Moderow taking home the grand prize from out pools as well. Congratulations everyone.
-Jeremy & Sandy came in second - this race has done a lot for them as a couple - they have learned how to communicate with each other much better than some couples ever will learn to - it's created a bond they'll have forever.
-Marcus & Amani were third - Phil asks Marcus to promise to never become a pilot. He says there is no chance of him ever getting in the cockpit of a plane again. Amani said she had to be patient for both of them during that challenge. She's never seen him punch anything like that before, he doesn't have a temper like that - and she warns her 4 children that if she ever sees them punching any doors like that - it's on! (I felt that, "Yes, mom.") Their message to their kids is: Don't quit. As long as you don't quit, you always win. (That's nice.) And the final word from Marcus, "Amani is the best team mate to have, she's tougher than any quarterback I've ever had." And with that I drink to you all!
Have a great week and for those of you I won't see before hand - A very Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year.
Coleen
Our final 3 teams are: Jeremy & Sandy (the dating and bickering couple), Cindy & Ernie (the control freak and her minion) and Marcus & Amani (the comeback kids, throwing a Hail Mary pass on the 4th down at the Super Bowl ;)
12:04am - Jeremy & Sandy are the first team to get the clue to fly to Atlanta, Ga - Sandy says "Oh no, this sucks." Once they touch down they must make their way to FlightSafety International to get their next clue. (I still don't know why Atlanta sucks.) Oh, Marcus & Amani live in Atlanta, Cindy & Ernie have experience there and Jeremy & Sandy have never been - I get it now.
12:05am - Cindy & Ernie are the next to leave and Cindy is also disheartened that Marcus & Amani are going to have such an advantage since they're heading to their hometown. They've seen the race as the best pre-marital counseling (and they've done pretty well I think.)
12:06am - Amani & Marcus are squealing happy to be heading to Atlanta! Amani, "So excited. We've made a lot of comebacks to be here." Marcus, "Now it's on to the Super Bowl... with home field advantage." (hahaha, now I just laugh at every football reference - if it was a drinking game we'd all be sloshed every Sunday night.)
They are all on the same flight, leaving at 8:30am. Game is on!
Once they land it is a sprint to the taxis - Jeremy & Sandy are the first team to get a taxi that will take them without the address - he has GPS. He gets on his phone and Sandy tells him not to tell the other drivers (yeah, especially after last leg, that killed my beloved snowboarders... but I'm not bitter.)
-Amani & Marcus asked a guy in the airport who looked up the address for them and they hop in a cab.
-Ernie & Cindy get a driver to let them in the cab and she asks to borrow his phone so she can look up where to go.
-They all arrive at FlightSafety one after the other. Route Info - they will take to the skies in a Learjet flight simulator, having to land successfully from a simulated 2500ft - once they've completed the task to the instructors satisfaction, they'll receive their next clue.
-Jeremy & Sandy are the first team heading into the simulator and, true to form, Sandy starts complaining that she's going to get motion sick, blah, blah, blah - (Really? Could you start off positive just once?) Jeremy is excited to be the pilot. Sandy, "I'm going to throw up."
-Marcus & Amani are getting in their simulator right after them - How real does this look? Marcus is not very excited, he's never liked flying. Amani is also wishing she took a motion sickness pill.
-Ernie & Cindy are the last team to arrive and head in. Ernie is flying and Cindy tells him to get it right the first time. (He's been told.)
They are all "flying" - and the co-pilot's job is to maintain air speed - Cindy was so focused on making sure Ernie was doing everything right, she let them slow down to the point they fell out of the sky - FAIL! And it was her fault (ha!)
-Marcus & Amani come in for their landing, it's a little hard and then he veered off the runway (I was yelling - Whoooaaa! Where are you going?)
-Jeremy & Sandy nailed it on the first try. (Huh, and she didn't throw up - go figure.) They get the next clue - Find the former residence known as The Dump - apparently the former residence of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind.
-Jeremy & Sandy get back to their cab and realize they were the first one's out and they're pumped. Their driver doesn't know what "the Dump" is so they are going to go to a main street and ask somebody (mobile shout out - for you Cash Cab watchers.)
-Meanwhile back in the simulators - Marcus has asked for taxi instructions before they have landed - which is wrong - so they failed their second attempt. Marcus, "Third times the charm."
-Ernie successfully lands their 2nd attempt and they get the clue to head for "The Dump." In the cab Cindy asks to use the cabbie's phone.
-Marcus' third attempt to land and when he hits the ground they go veering off again... (This is why I can never play driving games, I'm forever driving off course... but I've never played for a million dollars before.) 4th attempt and there is no-nonsense happening now - but the same result. Fail.
-Jeremy & Sandy are told 'the Dump' is the old Home Depot store...(Uh, no.)
-Cindy finds out from someone she calls that it's Margaret Mitchell's house and their driver knows it - they are off in the right direction.
-The teams in the cabs are going on about how nerve wracking this is. Sandy is going to have to go on Prilosec when she gets home (that's a heartburn drug - and she could have a future as a pharmaceutical rep)
-Cindy & Ernie say losing to either of the other two teams would be like being an A student and losing to a C+ student (yeah, that was Cindy.) He says it would have been one thing losing to the boys but this would be like losing to your brother... ??
-Back in the simulator - we are again veering off the runway.
-Jeremy & Sandy get to the former Home Depot... it is now a huge store called The Dump. They walk inside and Jeremy is going, "former residence known as the dump... former RESIDENCE?" They ask a guy working there if it's the former residence and he says it still is the Dump. So they start running through the place looking for a clue box. Sandy, "Are we idiots and in the wrong spot." (YES) Jeremy, "I don't know." (I do.)
-Ernie & Cindy arrive at Margaret Mitchell's house & museum - a woman in period costume is sitting right outside and hand them the clue to the ROADBLOCK: Who gives a damn?
-Working with an old fashioned typewriter in the same room where Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind - teams must type out their next clue. They will soon discover there is no key for the number one and will have to use the lowercase L in it's place. When Colonel Sanders (he said the Southern Gentleman, but come on, the tie.. it's the Colonel) believes it is typed to perfection, they'll receive their next clue.
-They have to decide who's going to do the task before they open it so Ernie says he gives a damn - and they find out it's typing and are pissed! She's a way faster typist (did you expect a physical challenge at the old time-y author's house?) He's not very fast.
-Marcus is still in the grass - and nearly punches a hole through the roof of the simulator.
-Jeremy & Sandy finally decide to ask someone else what the former residence known as the dump is and borrow a customer's smart phone.
-Cindy is still lamenting her decision not to step up and do the task and Ernie is looking for white out... not a good sign.
-Jeremy finds out they need to go to Margaret Mitchell's house - they take off.
-Ernie has gotten to the part where he needs to type a '1' - and he's stumped. He tries the 'i' - not good. He decides to look at the typeface on the actual striking arms of the typewriting looking for something that looks like a '1' and it was the lower case 'L'. He completes the task and can leave with the clue he just typed - but the clue is just numbers: 44-715-74.
They have to figure out this is Hank Aaron's number - his record of 715 home runs in 1974 - is commemorated on the outside of Turner Field, this is where they'll find their next clue.
-Cindy gets on the cab driver's phone again and calls information? maybe - they can't figure out what the numbers are - they head to the nearest hotel.
-Jeremy & Sandy have arrived at Margaret Mitchell's house and Jeremy volunteers Sandy to give a damn... he's at least aware enough that this would be a thinking challenge - it's all her. She's getting paper in the typewriter but she's Sandy about using the thing (this is so old, I don't know... I just want to smack her.)
-Ernie & Cindy get to a hotel and the guy at the front desk let's them come around and use Google on his computer "Just this one time." (Dude, it's going to be on TV, hopefully your boss isn't watching.)
-Sandy has gotten to the "1" and doesn't know what to do.
-Marcus has finally landed them successfully. He said once he stopped thinking about the rest of the race and took a deep breath - he knocked it out. That was a pass in the end zone that he dropped. (Drink!) They don't know what the former residence known as the Dump is.
In the cab he's beating himself up - he got to the Super bowl and he couldn't complete it - she says, "If you were in the end zone you'd still have been my target." (Oh no, now it's both of them - I'sh trying not to slur my typing. ;)
-Ernie & Cindy find out it's Hank Aaron's number and home run record - they ask the desk guy if there is a statue or memorial to him and they find out it's Turner Field.
-Sandy is staring at the typewriter willing a 1 to appear... but she figures it out and gets the Colonel's approval. Back out in their cab, they want to Google the numbers.
-Ernie & Cindy get to Turner Field and find the clue box - Route Info: Huge map challenge. One team member must get hooked up to ropes and suspended from the huge billboard of a map of the world. The other team member will yell out directions and without using any notes, they must successfully map their Race around the world on the billboard/map. (Yikes.)
-Cindy is the one going up in the harness. "Holy Bananas." They have to plot their course with red ropes hooked through caribeeners. She's doing well
-Marcus & Amani get to Margaret Mitchell's house and Amani says he gives a damn - so Marcus' is typing and not happy about it. Where's the one?
-Jeremy & Sandy ask at a hotel what the numbers are and are told to head to Turner Field.
-Cindy is flying through the mapping - it helps to have a grasp of geography - she has to pull the rope a couple times to make sure she has enough slack to make it home to the USA ... but really, this was no challenge for her - they get the final clue - to make their way to Swan House - Go Go GO!
-Jeremy & Sandy arrive at Turner Field and Jeremy is heading up onto the flag. She's doing a lot of directing and they've missed Indonesia...
-Ernie & Cindy are really happy their cab driver has GPS... and then he misses a turn and they're in GPS hell - re-calculating...
-Jeremy & Sandy get a thumbs down and realize they missed Indonesia... he puts it in and they are given the clue to the finish line. Go Go GO!
Both these teams are driving to the finish... and they cut it so we don't know until...
CINDY & ERNIE run through the gates - They are the winners of the Amazing Race!
-They want to start an organization to multiply the million and help out those in need and stimulate the global economy (that was very vague and sweeping... good luck with that.)
-Ernie says his family is probably passed out and Cindy says her parents would say, "I knew you'd win." Her parents have an expectation that she be the best and hopefully they've proven that they are the best together. (Tiger parents drama.) The Race was the best pre-marital counseling imaginable - they are very happy to have each other. (Awww.)
So, with Cindy & Ernie winning the Amazing Race, we have Miranne D, Andria S, Kelvin H and Fred/Gary Moderow taking home the grand prize from out pools as well. Congratulations everyone.
-Jeremy & Sandy came in second - this race has done a lot for them as a couple - they have learned how to communicate with each other much better than some couples ever will learn to - it's created a bond they'll have forever.
-Marcus & Amani were third - Phil asks Marcus to promise to never become a pilot. He says there is no chance of him ever getting in the cockpit of a plane again. Amani said she had to be patient for both of them during that challenge. She's never seen him punch anything like that before, he doesn't have a temper like that - and she warns her 4 children that if she ever sees them punching any doors like that - it's on! (I felt that, "Yes, mom.") Their message to their kids is: Don't quit. As long as you don't quit, you always win. (That's nice.) And the final word from Marcus, "Amani is the best team mate to have, she's tougher than any quarterback I've ever had." And with that I drink to you all!
Have a great week and for those of you I won't see before hand - A very Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year.
Coleen
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