Zip It, Bingo
Last week we saw the exciting start of the 23rd Amazing Race, the Father/Daughter team couldn't keep up and were the first eliminated. The rest are starting out this leg from Chile, where the first place team of the Arguing Exes, Tim & Marie, headed out at 2:52am. They have to make their way to the deck of a specific ship where the officer of the day will post their next clue.
-3:02am -Doctors Travis & Nicole are the next out and she is still bitter that they didn't come in first but she is putting that behind her, they don't have the express pass, it's time to move on.
-Theatre performers Rowan & Shane heading out at 3:08am - they are survivors, blue collar actors (meaning they'll never be famous.)
Tim & Marie find the ship and the sign out front says it doesn't open until 7:15am - they're bummed that everyone is going to catch up (and welcome to the Amazing Race.)
-Chester & Ephraim - 3:13am, Kim & Nicky (baseball wives) 3:14 am - the guys know it's not going to be open yet, "It's 3:15 in the morning."
-Ally & Ashley (blond barbies) - 3:20am - they say they are in an alliance with Leo & Jamal - the guys call them their race wives because they have more of a commitment than race girlfriends (oh please.)
-Leo & Jamal (Afghanimals) - 4:00am - they are also giggling about their race wives.
Nicole & Travis get to the ship and right away are asking Tim & Marie what they are going to do with the 2nd Express Pass- Nicole tells them it's her 40th birthday today, she sure would like the pass for her birthday (I'm sure you would.) Marie says, "yeah, okay." but in a dismissive way, there was no commitment there.
-Jason & Amy - 5:17am - Okies Tim & Danny 5:28am - and last to depart are the bearded wonders, Brandon & Adam at 5:38am.
At the ship, Marie is asserting herself by informing everyone of the rules, they have to place their backpacks in the order in which they arrived, "No one is jumping in front of us." Ephraim tells her he doesn't have to follow her rules, he'll put his stuff where ever he wants, but he did put it in the line. Jamal is also not impressed with Marie's high-handedness, "Someone made Pinky and No-Brains the captains of the line..." They all seemed to humour her with the bag line but if Marie "accidentally" ends up in the water, I wouldn't be surprised.
7:15am: Off they go and Jamal almost made it in front of Marie by taking a shortcut - doesn't really matter they all find where the clue is posted and it tells them they have to find a phrase that the famous ship captain said and repeat it in Spanish to the Officer of the Day to get the next clue. So they all break up looking for the phrase all over the ship.
-The blond girls and the bearded boys decide to get off the ship and ask a local guy on the street - he tells them "Charge the ship, men!" (in Spanish of course). A few of the other teams saw them leave and come back and go looking off the ship.
-Bearded Brandon & Adam are the first team to give the phrase to the officer and they get the clue to make their way to the Irlanda Salt Mines and look for the next clue.
-As Brandon & Adam are leaving they run by Marie who asks them where the phrase is and wheedles, "I have an Express Pass." Adam just tells her they asked somebody and runs on by.
-Ashley & Ally are the next team to get the clue (no sharing with your husbands, for shame.) They're just happy they beat out Marie & Tim (Marie is one of those hyper-competitive people that everyone loves to hate. And I think she's probably fine with that.)
-So now a whole bunch of teams found another guy to ask and they all get the clue and take off in cabs.
-First 2 teams get to the Salt Mines and get the clue for the DETOUR: they have to ride bikes out to the salt mine where they must choose between Mining or Brining.
-In Brining: they must add enough salt to a tub of water that they can comfortably float and read a local newspaper - once the miner feels they are suitably relaxed, he'll give them their next clue.
-In Mining: they must break open boulders of salt until they find one with the small rolled up clue in it. (More labour intensive, but they don't have to change their clothes...)
-Brandon & Adam choose: Mining - they do look good in bathing suits but they are quicker at smashing stuff. The boys are stoked to be cycling in Chile... oh, and they're in first place.
-Ashley & Ally are going to do the mining too (huh?) - their first problem though, is that they are not the best bike riders (uh oh... but they do fine.)
-Leo & Jamal arrive at the Detour and they are mining. They are not water creatures.
-Nicole & Travis (doctors) are doing brining - he thinks it's a great way to start out her birthday, with a nice salt bath with her husband.
-Chester & Ephraim - They figure they are big and heavy guys - it will take a mountain of salt to make them float - they are going to bust stuff.
-Smarty pants' Jason & Amy - she decides they are mining and he keeps second guessing her, "are you sure you can lift a sledgehammer?" "Oh my God! Yes!" (Trouble in dating land.)
-Our poor theatre performers, Rowan & Shane lost the cab driver lotto today and they get lost on the way - well, the language barrier didn't help - they had to stop for a translation of directions for the driver.
-Beards, Blondies and Afghanimals are starting on the mining - they gave them tiny little hammers... oy, this could take a while.
-Okay, the big NFL players on the bikes looked pretty comical, they made those bikes almost look like clown bikes - but they were just happy not to have to run out there. It was quite the bike ride and Nicole was having problems, she couldn't figure out the gears and fell over... yikes. Travis was frustrated with her and switched bikes, but it didn't help much.
-After the bike ride tired Amy out, Jason was able to convince her to do the Brining instead.
-NFLers show up to start smashing the salt and the blond girls decide they are going to switch tasks.
-Briners get suited up in their bikinis and, in Jason's case gonch, and start carrying the heavy bags of salt over to the water baths - it's quite a large tub, and Amy shares that it's pretty cold.
-Rowan & Shane are still in the cab and are now in the middle of nowhere (looks like they're on the right road though) they haven't seen anyone for a very long time so they know they are either right or very, very wrong.
-Marie & Tim, brunette Barbies Nicky & Kim and the Okies Tim & Danny finally get the clue and these teams are all brining. The Okies carry heavy sacks all day they figure it'll be no problem.
-Back at the Mining - the NFLers are using the "Hulk Smash!" method and just picking up the boulders and smashing them down... still the Bearded boys are the first team to find a clue - it tells them to make their way back to the town and take a 1000mi bus ride to Santiago, Chile then make their way to a plaza to find their next clue.
-Leo & Jamal are the next team to find a clue out of their boulder, Hulk Sad! The boys enjoyed seeing their Race wives in their bikinis as they ran by, though.
-At the Brining baths, there is no floating happening yet, everyone is still hauling bags of salt and doctor Nicole is whining (I'm having flashbacks to the Canadian Amazing Race where the female doctor was the biggest whiner - ugh, come on ladies!)
-Then there is the anti-whiner, Marie, she is a bull - picking up two bags of salt at a time - she has no brakes, she is full steam ahead and wanting to make up some of their lost ground.
-The NFL'ers finally smash their way to a clue and the Mining seemed to be the task to do if you wanted it done fast.
-Rowan & Shane finally arrive and head out on the bikes for the mining task - Leo & Jamal pass them on their way back and wish them luck but Leo really meant, "You are so screwed."
Bus Station - Brandon & Adam get tickets on a 1:30pm bus heading for Santiago. Leo & Jamal, of course, flirt with the ticket lady and after finding out it's a 24hr bus ride ask if there are pretty ladies on the bus (walking hormones these two.) They are also on the 1:30pm bus.
-Back at the pools - Marie & Tim are arguing but that's just per usual. Amy & Jason are super floating and get the clue - Nicole & Travis were barely floating and they also got their clue (everyone should be trying to float.) Marie & Tim float and get the clue (once he convinced her to mix it up instead of just dumping more salt in.)
-Chester & Ephraim have arrived at the bus station and get the same bus 1:30... I wonder what time it is? Jason & Amy and Nicole & Travis also get the same bus.
-Baseball wives are having issues at the Brining - well, I think it's Kim, she's complaining that she's cold and her arms are all cut up... she just needs a hug (oh sweet jebus, they hug it out but really, you are in a race!)
-Theatre guys are finally at the Mining, Rowan is not in a good mood, he's not a slender guy and the bike ride was hard for him... we'll see if he breaks rocks any better.
At the bus station, the 1:30 bus is now full, so Marie & Tim are on a 2pm bus - she's not happy about it. Leo is trying to wheedle a couple tickets on the 1:30 bus for Ashley and Ally and Marie comes over, "What are you doing?" (Like he has to answer to you.) No one can stand her... and it doesn't really matter because Ally & Ashley are on the 2pm bus anyway.
Back at the Detour - Theatre Performers and Baseball Wives finally smash and float to their next clues and head for the bus station.
1:30pm - First bus heading out.
2:00pm - 2nd bus heading out.
Rowan & Shane ask the ticket agent what time the 2pm bus gets to Santiago - 6pm the next day, apparently it makes a lot of stops. They decide to take a 4pm bus that will actually get them in at 4pm the next day hoping to gain a lead on the 4 other teams on the 2pm bus... but they have to stall and make it look like they are getting on the bus so no one suspects. Once it leaves without them, they go back to buy the other tickets and find out the language barrier screwed them again - the 4pm bus leaves at 4pm and arrives at Santiago at 10pm... yup, hooped!
-So they get a 3pm bus instead getting in at 7-8pm.
Next day 1:45pm- First bus arrives in Santiago and the teams find the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Who got the knack to pack?
-They have to give someone a shoe-shine, figure out how to pack up the complicated shoe-shine stand, then push it 6 blocks to the storage area to get their next clue.
-Amy, Chester, Adam, Leo and Nicole are doing it - the shining goes smoothly and everyone seems to have packed up easily except Nicole, again whining that she's so tired (come on lady, you're making all us 40 yr old women look bad!)
-On the 2nd bus, the baseball wives are talking to Tim & Marie and it comes out that Tim played minor league baseball and knows Kim's husband... they've made a connection and Marie is dangling the Express Pass in front of their noses - she'd like to give it to them unless some other team totally saves their butts but she doubts that'll happen since everyone hates them. Tim,"You did that." Oh she knows and she doesn't care - she's also not giving that pass away until she milks it for everything she can get out of it. The Baseball wives are top contenders though because she knows they can beat them.
-Back at the Roadblock, Leo is the first shiner to the storage depot but he hasn't packed the cart correctly and they turn him away to do it right. Chester gets there too and his grocery packing experience won out - he gets the clue. Leo fixes it up and is right behind him. Adam gets there and accidentally dumps everything (oops). Nicole is still whining.
-Chester & Ephraim read the clue to make their way to the Pit Stop! Yay! (These guys are my team.) But Leo & Jamal jump in a cab first - it's a race between these two now.
Rowan & Shane - are all by themselves on the third bus - and praying for divine intervention.
Cascade Des Animaux (Pit Stop) - Leo and Jamal throw money at their cab driver and take off running. They are first to the mat but Phil tells them they have to settle up with their cab driver before he can check them in (Oh, snap.) And then he whole first bus checks in before the 2nd bus even arrives in Santiago.
6:44pm - 2nd bus arrives and they get the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Marie, Danny, Nicky and Ally(?) are doing the shoe-shining.
7:03pm - 3rd bus with Rowan & Shane (Bingo) gets in - okay, not too bad.
Rowan is doing the shining. The 2nd bus teams see Bingo arrive and they can't believe it. Marie is especially mad, and apparently she can't give a shoe-shine - her customer keeps telling her no, and she freaks out (she's a nightmare.)
-Rowan apparently can't read a clue- it says to find a marked shoe-shine stand, he just finds some poor guy making a living and he takes over his stand (oh mama-mia).
-The others have finished their shines and are trying to pack up the stands - Baseball wife Nicky forgets the mat under hers. Okie Tim used to move furniture for a living so he's flying through this. Blond girl dumps all her stuff everywhere.
-Rowan is now trying to get the guy to let him take his stand away (Oh my god! READ your Clue!) This poor shoe-shine guy. Rowan is wheeling his kit away (sigh.)
-At the depot, Okie Tim has to repack his cart, Baseball wife and Marie see him and start repacking - Blond girl gets it right and gets the clue and Marie gives Tim crap for telling her where the entrance was (she's just a horrible person.)
-Rowan shows up with the wrong cart all together, the poor shoeshine guy wants to leave, Marie is egging him on, Rowan is begging and calls her the devil (yes, that's true).
-Baseball wife has forgotten her mat so she can't get the clue, she has to go back and get it, she asks Marie for he Express Pass and Marie says she can't give it to her right now [because it wouldn't benefit her at all.] (I want her gone so bad - I can't wait for the Race karma to catch up with her.)
-The guys at the depot finally tell Rowan he has the wrong stand and he just takes off, leaving the poor shoeshine guy standing there (nice.) He says he's so frustrated - (oh really how do you think that poor guy feels?)
-In the cab Marie is telling Tim how Bingo was telling the guy she's the devil in Spanish and Tim says, "I kinda agree." (Ha! And I kinda like Tim a little more.) She gives him the evil stink eye and he says, "What? You're on my team, I can say that."
-Back at the shoe-shine - Baseball wife can't find her rug, Rowan finally finds the right shoe-shine - she hands in the rug and gets the clue just before Rowan checks in his cart and gets his clue...
Here's How They Finished:
1) Leo & Jamal *NOPE* Pay the nice man.
1) Chester & Ephraim - very gracious about coming in second until Phil said, however... they are officially team #1 - that made their day and they won a trip to Turks & Caicos.
2) Leo & Jamal - they are angrily blaming each other for the error in paying the driver - hot-blooded all around these two.
3) Brandon & Adam - literally run rings around Phil and the local greeter - why? Cause they're silly.
4) Nicole & Travis - they'll take it (don't have a choice)
5) Jason & Amy - Who? They didn't show these two much, smarty pants' must be boring.
6) Tim & Danny - Okies - High 5.
7) Ally & Ashley - lots of screaming.
8) Tim & Marie - Phil remarks that they still have the express pass and she confirms, yes, she still has the express pass.
9) Nicky & Kim - even though the devil wouldn't give them an express pass, they made it.
10) Rowan & Shane - ***ELIMINATED*** It was great, they took the chance. Shane's philosophy, "You can't have great success without great failure." (so, I guess he's due some great success?) Rowan says he has come to appreciate Shane's friendship so much more.
And with Rowan & Shane leaving, that takes Rachel R, Cheryl J, Shelly P, Donna P and Bob L out of the pool.
Next week: They get Medieval in a task (there is dressing up in chainmail involved) and the Baseball wives take on Marie at the airport, bumping her on the stand-by list - and I heard "You are dead to me." (Ha, she's so horrible that it's funny when she gets screwed.)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
Last week we saw the exciting start of the 23rd Amazing Race, the Father/Daughter team couldn't keep up and were the first eliminated. The rest are starting out this leg from Chile, where the first place team of the Arguing Exes, Tim & Marie, headed out at 2:52am. They have to make their way to the deck of a specific ship where the officer of the day will post their next clue.
-3:02am -Doctors Travis & Nicole are the next out and she is still bitter that they didn't come in first but she is putting that behind her, they don't have the express pass, it's time to move on.
-Theatre performers Rowan & Shane heading out at 3:08am - they are survivors, blue collar actors (meaning they'll never be famous.)
Tim & Marie find the ship and the sign out front says it doesn't open until 7:15am - they're bummed that everyone is going to catch up (and welcome to the Amazing Race.)
-Chester & Ephraim - 3:13am, Kim & Nicky (baseball wives) 3:14 am - the guys know it's not going to be open yet, "It's 3:15 in the morning."
-Ally & Ashley (blond barbies) - 3:20am - they say they are in an alliance with Leo & Jamal - the guys call them their race wives because they have more of a commitment than race girlfriends (oh please.)
-Leo & Jamal (Afghanimals) - 4:00am - they are also giggling about their race wives.
Nicole & Travis get to the ship and right away are asking Tim & Marie what they are going to do with the 2nd Express Pass- Nicole tells them it's her 40th birthday today, she sure would like the pass for her birthday (I'm sure you would.) Marie says, "yeah, okay." but in a dismissive way, there was no commitment there.
-Jason & Amy - 5:17am - Okies Tim & Danny 5:28am - and last to depart are the bearded wonders, Brandon & Adam at 5:38am.
At the ship, Marie is asserting herself by informing everyone of the rules, they have to place their backpacks in the order in which they arrived, "No one is jumping in front of us." Ephraim tells her he doesn't have to follow her rules, he'll put his stuff where ever he wants, but he did put it in the line. Jamal is also not impressed with Marie's high-handedness, "Someone made Pinky and No-Brains the captains of the line..." They all seemed to humour her with the bag line but if Marie "accidentally" ends up in the water, I wouldn't be surprised.
7:15am: Off they go and Jamal almost made it in front of Marie by taking a shortcut - doesn't really matter they all find where the clue is posted and it tells them they have to find a phrase that the famous ship captain said and repeat it in Spanish to the Officer of the Day to get the next clue. So they all break up looking for the phrase all over the ship.
-The blond girls and the bearded boys decide to get off the ship and ask a local guy on the street - he tells them "Charge the ship, men!" (in Spanish of course). A few of the other teams saw them leave and come back and go looking off the ship.
-Bearded Brandon & Adam are the first team to give the phrase to the officer and they get the clue to make their way to the Irlanda Salt Mines and look for the next clue.
-As Brandon & Adam are leaving they run by Marie who asks them where the phrase is and wheedles, "I have an Express Pass." Adam just tells her they asked somebody and runs on by.
-Ashley & Ally are the next team to get the clue (no sharing with your husbands, for shame.) They're just happy they beat out Marie & Tim (Marie is one of those hyper-competitive people that everyone loves to hate. And I think she's probably fine with that.)
-So now a whole bunch of teams found another guy to ask and they all get the clue and take off in cabs.
-First 2 teams get to the Salt Mines and get the clue for the DETOUR: they have to ride bikes out to the salt mine where they must choose between Mining or Brining.
-In Brining: they must add enough salt to a tub of water that they can comfortably float and read a local newspaper - once the miner feels they are suitably relaxed, he'll give them their next clue.
-In Mining: they must break open boulders of salt until they find one with the small rolled up clue in it. (More labour intensive, but they don't have to change their clothes...)
-Brandon & Adam choose: Mining - they do look good in bathing suits but they are quicker at smashing stuff. The boys are stoked to be cycling in Chile... oh, and they're in first place.
-Ashley & Ally are going to do the mining too (huh?) - their first problem though, is that they are not the best bike riders (uh oh... but they do fine.)
-Leo & Jamal arrive at the Detour and they are mining. They are not water creatures.
-Nicole & Travis (doctors) are doing brining - he thinks it's a great way to start out her birthday, with a nice salt bath with her husband.
-Chester & Ephraim - They figure they are big and heavy guys - it will take a mountain of salt to make them float - they are going to bust stuff.
-Smarty pants' Jason & Amy - she decides they are mining and he keeps second guessing her, "are you sure you can lift a sledgehammer?" "Oh my God! Yes!" (Trouble in dating land.)
-Our poor theatre performers, Rowan & Shane lost the cab driver lotto today and they get lost on the way - well, the language barrier didn't help - they had to stop for a translation of directions for the driver.
-Beards, Blondies and Afghanimals are starting on the mining - they gave them tiny little hammers... oy, this could take a while.
-Okay, the big NFL players on the bikes looked pretty comical, they made those bikes almost look like clown bikes - but they were just happy not to have to run out there. It was quite the bike ride and Nicole was having problems, she couldn't figure out the gears and fell over... yikes. Travis was frustrated with her and switched bikes, but it didn't help much.
-After the bike ride tired Amy out, Jason was able to convince her to do the Brining instead.
-NFLers show up to start smashing the salt and the blond girls decide they are going to switch tasks.
-Briners get suited up in their bikinis and, in Jason's case gonch, and start carrying the heavy bags of salt over to the water baths - it's quite a large tub, and Amy shares that it's pretty cold.
-Rowan & Shane are still in the cab and are now in the middle of nowhere (looks like they're on the right road though) they haven't seen anyone for a very long time so they know they are either right or very, very wrong.
-Marie & Tim, brunette Barbies Nicky & Kim and the Okies Tim & Danny finally get the clue and these teams are all brining. The Okies carry heavy sacks all day they figure it'll be no problem.
-Back at the Mining - the NFLers are using the "Hulk Smash!" method and just picking up the boulders and smashing them down... still the Bearded boys are the first team to find a clue - it tells them to make their way back to the town and take a 1000mi bus ride to Santiago, Chile then make their way to a plaza to find their next clue.
-Leo & Jamal are the next team to find a clue out of their boulder, Hulk Sad! The boys enjoyed seeing their Race wives in their bikinis as they ran by, though.
-At the Brining baths, there is no floating happening yet, everyone is still hauling bags of salt and doctor Nicole is whining (I'm having flashbacks to the Canadian Amazing Race where the female doctor was the biggest whiner - ugh, come on ladies!)
-Then there is the anti-whiner, Marie, she is a bull - picking up two bags of salt at a time - she has no brakes, she is full steam ahead and wanting to make up some of their lost ground.
-The NFL'ers finally smash their way to a clue and the Mining seemed to be the task to do if you wanted it done fast.
-Rowan & Shane finally arrive and head out on the bikes for the mining task - Leo & Jamal pass them on their way back and wish them luck but Leo really meant, "You are so screwed."
Bus Station - Brandon & Adam get tickets on a 1:30pm bus heading for Santiago. Leo & Jamal, of course, flirt with the ticket lady and after finding out it's a 24hr bus ride ask if there are pretty ladies on the bus (walking hormones these two.) They are also on the 1:30pm bus.
-Back at the pools - Marie & Tim are arguing but that's just per usual. Amy & Jason are super floating and get the clue - Nicole & Travis were barely floating and they also got their clue (everyone should be trying to float.) Marie & Tim float and get the clue (once he convinced her to mix it up instead of just dumping more salt in.)
-Chester & Ephraim have arrived at the bus station and get the same bus 1:30... I wonder what time it is? Jason & Amy and Nicole & Travis also get the same bus.
-Baseball wives are having issues at the Brining - well, I think it's Kim, she's complaining that she's cold and her arms are all cut up... she just needs a hug (oh sweet jebus, they hug it out but really, you are in a race!)
-Theatre guys are finally at the Mining, Rowan is not in a good mood, he's not a slender guy and the bike ride was hard for him... we'll see if he breaks rocks any better.
At the bus station, the 1:30 bus is now full, so Marie & Tim are on a 2pm bus - she's not happy about it. Leo is trying to wheedle a couple tickets on the 1:30 bus for Ashley and Ally and Marie comes over, "What are you doing?" (Like he has to answer to you.) No one can stand her... and it doesn't really matter because Ally & Ashley are on the 2pm bus anyway.
Back at the Detour - Theatre Performers and Baseball Wives finally smash and float to their next clues and head for the bus station.
1:30pm - First bus heading out.
2:00pm - 2nd bus heading out.
Rowan & Shane ask the ticket agent what time the 2pm bus gets to Santiago - 6pm the next day, apparently it makes a lot of stops. They decide to take a 4pm bus that will actually get them in at 4pm the next day hoping to gain a lead on the 4 other teams on the 2pm bus... but they have to stall and make it look like they are getting on the bus so no one suspects. Once it leaves without them, they go back to buy the other tickets and find out the language barrier screwed them again - the 4pm bus leaves at 4pm and arrives at Santiago at 10pm... yup, hooped!
-So they get a 3pm bus instead getting in at 7-8pm.
Next day 1:45pm- First bus arrives in Santiago and the teams find the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Who got the knack to pack?
-They have to give someone a shoe-shine, figure out how to pack up the complicated shoe-shine stand, then push it 6 blocks to the storage area to get their next clue.
-Amy, Chester, Adam, Leo and Nicole are doing it - the shining goes smoothly and everyone seems to have packed up easily except Nicole, again whining that she's so tired (come on lady, you're making all us 40 yr old women look bad!)
-On the 2nd bus, the baseball wives are talking to Tim & Marie and it comes out that Tim played minor league baseball and knows Kim's husband... they've made a connection and Marie is dangling the Express Pass in front of their noses - she'd like to give it to them unless some other team totally saves their butts but she doubts that'll happen since everyone hates them. Tim,"You did that." Oh she knows and she doesn't care - she's also not giving that pass away until she milks it for everything she can get out of it. The Baseball wives are top contenders though because she knows they can beat them.
-Back at the Roadblock, Leo is the first shiner to the storage depot but he hasn't packed the cart correctly and they turn him away to do it right. Chester gets there too and his grocery packing experience won out - he gets the clue. Leo fixes it up and is right behind him. Adam gets there and accidentally dumps everything (oops). Nicole is still whining.
-Chester & Ephraim read the clue to make their way to the Pit Stop! Yay! (These guys are my team.) But Leo & Jamal jump in a cab first - it's a race between these two now.
Rowan & Shane - are all by themselves on the third bus - and praying for divine intervention.
Cascade Des Animaux (Pit Stop) - Leo and Jamal throw money at their cab driver and take off running. They are first to the mat but Phil tells them they have to settle up with their cab driver before he can check them in (Oh, snap.) And then he whole first bus checks in before the 2nd bus even arrives in Santiago.
6:44pm - 2nd bus arrives and they get the clue to the ROADBLOCK - Marie, Danny, Nicky and Ally(?) are doing the shoe-shining.
7:03pm - 3rd bus with Rowan & Shane (Bingo) gets in - okay, not too bad.
Rowan is doing the shining. The 2nd bus teams see Bingo arrive and they can't believe it. Marie is especially mad, and apparently she can't give a shoe-shine - her customer keeps telling her no, and she freaks out (she's a nightmare.)
-Rowan apparently can't read a clue- it says to find a marked shoe-shine stand, he just finds some poor guy making a living and he takes over his stand (oh mama-mia).
-The others have finished their shines and are trying to pack up the stands - Baseball wife Nicky forgets the mat under hers. Okie Tim used to move furniture for a living so he's flying through this. Blond girl dumps all her stuff everywhere.
-Rowan is now trying to get the guy to let him take his stand away (Oh my god! READ your Clue!) This poor shoe-shine guy. Rowan is wheeling his kit away (sigh.)
-At the depot, Okie Tim has to repack his cart, Baseball wife and Marie see him and start repacking - Blond girl gets it right and gets the clue and Marie gives Tim crap for telling her where the entrance was (she's just a horrible person.)
-Rowan shows up with the wrong cart all together, the poor shoeshine guy wants to leave, Marie is egging him on, Rowan is begging and calls her the devil (yes, that's true).
-Baseball wife has forgotten her mat so she can't get the clue, she has to go back and get it, she asks Marie for he Express Pass and Marie says she can't give it to her right now [because it wouldn't benefit her at all.] (I want her gone so bad - I can't wait for the Race karma to catch up with her.)
-The guys at the depot finally tell Rowan he has the wrong stand and he just takes off, leaving the poor shoeshine guy standing there (nice.) He says he's so frustrated - (oh really how do you think that poor guy feels?)
-In the cab Marie is telling Tim how Bingo was telling the guy she's the devil in Spanish and Tim says, "I kinda agree." (Ha! And I kinda like Tim a little more.) She gives him the evil stink eye and he says, "What? You're on my team, I can say that."
-Back at the shoe-shine - Baseball wife can't find her rug, Rowan finally finds the right shoe-shine - she hands in the rug and gets the clue just before Rowan checks in his cart and gets his clue...
Here's How They Finished:
1) Chester & Ephraim - very gracious about coming in second until Phil said, however... they are officially team #1 - that made their day and they won a trip to Turks & Caicos.
2) Leo & Jamal - they are angrily blaming each other for the error in paying the driver - hot-blooded all around these two.
3) Brandon & Adam - literally run rings around Phil and the local greeter - why? Cause they're silly.
4) Nicole & Travis - they'll take it (don't have a choice)
5) Jason & Amy - Who? They didn't show these two much, smarty pants' must be boring.
6) Tim & Danny - Okies - High 5.
7) Ally & Ashley - lots of screaming.
8) Tim & Marie - Phil remarks that they still have the express pass and she confirms, yes, she still has the express pass.
9) Nicky & Kim - even though the devil wouldn't give them an express pass, they made it.
10) Rowan & Shane - ***ELIMINATED*** It was great, they took the chance. Shane's philosophy, "You can't have great success without great failure." (so, I guess he's due some great success?) Rowan says he has come to appreciate Shane's friendship so much more.
And with Rowan & Shane leaving, that takes Rachel R, Cheryl J, Shelly P, Donna P and Bob L out of the pool.
Next week: They get Medieval in a task (there is dressing up in chainmail involved) and the Baseball wives take on Marie at the airport, bumping her on the stand-by list - and I heard "You are dead to me." (Ha, she's so horrible that it's funny when she gets screwed.)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
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