Let the Good Times Roll
This week the teams headed to Armenia, there was finally a Express Pass in the offering for the winner of the leg ... and Cole made me so mad I almost couldn't make myself watch the episode again to recap it.
Once they landed in Armenia they had to make their way to the opera house and search for the next clue inside. There was a performance going on with dancers and musicians but no audience... and one guy vacuuming. Everyone spread out and starting looking under every seat in every nook and cranny... until Kurt asked the cleaner if he had a clue and of course he did. But Kurt was stealthy enough that not everyone saw so it took a long time for some of the teams to figure out to ask the guy for a clue - this is where Korey & Tyler lost their front runner status and ended up at the back of the pack.
From here they had to go to the Cascade which was a set of staircases they had to run up to the next clue box (I would have been dead right there.)
The clue was to the DETOUR: Bread or Thread
In Bread they had to learn how to make a traditional flat bread and the cooking involved smashing the rolled dough against the side of a pit oven... there was a lot of dough sacrificed to the Armenian gods that day.
In Thread, they had to weave two rows of a traditional rug... this was a very tedious job but if they paid attention they could get through it pretty quickly.
Only Kurt & Brodie and Burnie & Ashley did the bread and they got through it but it wasn't that easy... though the local lady that taught them was pretty jovial and very happy to hug the hunky boys.
Everyone else did the thread and I bet those rugs were expensive, they had the weavers right beside them the whole time and no one had to re-do anything (but I bet those two rows were likely re-done after they all left.)
From the Detour they had to head to a square and find the #13 buses then ride out to the middle of nowhere to get the next clue. These were party buses on the inside, lots of local ladies having a good time (it was a little weird, not sure what they were up to.)
At the rug task Tyler & Korey were able to make up a lot of time passing a couple teams but then they misread the clue outside and thought they had to go look for a bus, when they just needed to grab a cab and drive to where the buses were... they ended up in last place again.
ROADBLOCK: Who's feeling drained? There were a whole bunch of taxi's waiting in the middle of nowhere... which happened to be where they had an outdoor oil change area. One person from each team will have to choose a cab, get it up on the ramp, drain the old oil, change the oil filter and fill it with new oil - then they take that cab to the Pit Stop. Only two cabs were allowed up on the ramp at a time so a lot of people stacked up here.
Surprisingly, Sheri & Cole were in second place, right behind Kurt & Brodie. Kurt was doing this one for them and, for reasons known only to a coddling mother who doesn't make her child do anything (and thus robs them of the chance to learn), Sheri said she'd do this one... even though she knows nothing about changing the oil in a car and she did all the terrifying stuff last leg (make your spoiled brat of a son do something! Can you tell I'm over Cole?)
So here is where the episode derails for me. Sheri can't get the oil filter off and people did try to help her, to a point. She starts crying because she doesn't want to let Cole down and he's trying to be supportive but he's getting quieter and quieter as the other teams pass them one by one. Finally, the second to last team is Scott & Blair and Daddy Scott is so nice, he shows Sheri how to use the tool to get the filter off.
But Sheri still can't figure out how to use the tool (turns out she is turning it the wrong way) and she goes and is standing in front of Cole the picture of abject misery, crying with her head bowed and does the little prince comfort her? No, he says, "Why are you crying?" (For godapus sakes! You hug your mother if she is standing in front of you crying like that! Sheesh, I'm mad at her too, she should have made him do this one - but still.) Blair finally can't take it and gives Sheri a hug and tells her not to give up (at least someone's kid was raised right... just saying.)
Sheri does go back to the car, once Scott is done he shows her she's been turning the wrong way and then it's just a matter of her trying to get it done. Tyler & Korey finished just before her however and Sheri & Mud (yes, his name is mud to me now) head for the Pit Stop in last place - with her crying and him trying not to be p*ssed off telling her she did so good not to worry about it (but still he has not hugged her and he does not seem sincere.)
Here's How They Finished:
1) Kurt & Brodie - they win the Express Pass
2) Burnie & Ashley - Burnie did try to help Sheri briefly but then left it for Scott to help her.
3) Zach & Rachel
4) Matt & Dana
5) Scott & Blair
6) Korey & Tyler - Tyler is trying to find the silver lining, being at the back of the pack takes some of the pressure off and makes them seem not so much a threat to the other teams (Riiiighhht.)
7) Sheri & Cole - She stands in front of Phil crying with her head down again... I guess Cole did have his arm around her but he's still dead to me now. Phil tells Sheri to hold her head up, because they are still racing! And he hands them the clue to the next leg... So no one eliminated, except Cole has a long way to go to redeem himself to me.
Next week: There is a detailed dance they have to learn (Oh no, the kiss of TAR Death.)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
This week the teams headed to Armenia, there was finally a Express Pass in the offering for the winner of the leg ... and Cole made me so mad I almost couldn't make myself watch the episode again to recap it.
Once they landed in Armenia they had to make their way to the opera house and search for the next clue inside. There was a performance going on with dancers and musicians but no audience... and one guy vacuuming. Everyone spread out and starting looking under every seat in every nook and cranny... until Kurt asked the cleaner if he had a clue and of course he did. But Kurt was stealthy enough that not everyone saw so it took a long time for some of the teams to figure out to ask the guy for a clue - this is where Korey & Tyler lost their front runner status and ended up at the back of the pack.
From here they had to go to the Cascade which was a set of staircases they had to run up to the next clue box (I would have been dead right there.)
The clue was to the DETOUR: Bread or Thread
In Bread they had to learn how to make a traditional flat bread and the cooking involved smashing the rolled dough against the side of a pit oven... there was a lot of dough sacrificed to the Armenian gods that day.
In Thread, they had to weave two rows of a traditional rug... this was a very tedious job but if they paid attention they could get through it pretty quickly.
Only Kurt & Brodie and Burnie & Ashley did the bread and they got through it but it wasn't that easy... though the local lady that taught them was pretty jovial and very happy to hug the hunky boys.
Everyone else did the thread and I bet those rugs were expensive, they had the weavers right beside them the whole time and no one had to re-do anything (but I bet those two rows were likely re-done after they all left.)
From the Detour they had to head to a square and find the #13 buses then ride out to the middle of nowhere to get the next clue. These were party buses on the inside, lots of local ladies having a good time (it was a little weird, not sure what they were up to.)
At the rug task Tyler & Korey were able to make up a lot of time passing a couple teams but then they misread the clue outside and thought they had to go look for a bus, when they just needed to grab a cab and drive to where the buses were... they ended up in last place again.
ROADBLOCK: Who's feeling drained? There were a whole bunch of taxi's waiting in the middle of nowhere... which happened to be where they had an outdoor oil change area. One person from each team will have to choose a cab, get it up on the ramp, drain the old oil, change the oil filter and fill it with new oil - then they take that cab to the Pit Stop. Only two cabs were allowed up on the ramp at a time so a lot of people stacked up here.
Surprisingly, Sheri & Cole were in second place, right behind Kurt & Brodie. Kurt was doing this one for them and, for reasons known only to a coddling mother who doesn't make her child do anything (and thus robs them of the chance to learn), Sheri said she'd do this one... even though she knows nothing about changing the oil in a car and she did all the terrifying stuff last leg (make your spoiled brat of a son do something! Can you tell I'm over Cole?)
So here is where the episode derails for me. Sheri can't get the oil filter off and people did try to help her, to a point. She starts crying because she doesn't want to let Cole down and he's trying to be supportive but he's getting quieter and quieter as the other teams pass them one by one. Finally, the second to last team is Scott & Blair and Daddy Scott is so nice, he shows Sheri how to use the tool to get the filter off.
But Sheri still can't figure out how to use the tool (turns out she is turning it the wrong way) and she goes and is standing in front of Cole the picture of abject misery, crying with her head bowed and does the little prince comfort her? No, he says, "Why are you crying?" (For godapus sakes! You hug your mother if she is standing in front of you crying like that! Sheesh, I'm mad at her too, she should have made him do this one - but still.) Blair finally can't take it and gives Sheri a hug and tells her not to give up (at least someone's kid was raised right... just saying.)
Sheri does go back to the car, once Scott is done he shows her she's been turning the wrong way and then it's just a matter of her trying to get it done. Tyler & Korey finished just before her however and Sheri & Mud (yes, his name is mud to me now) head for the Pit Stop in last place - with her crying and him trying not to be p*ssed off telling her she did so good not to worry about it (but still he has not hugged her and he does not seem sincere.)
Here's How They Finished:
1) Kurt & Brodie - they win the Express Pass
2) Burnie & Ashley - Burnie did try to help Sheri briefly but then left it for Scott to help her.
3) Zach & Rachel
4) Matt & Dana
5) Scott & Blair
6) Korey & Tyler - Tyler is trying to find the silver lining, being at the back of the pack takes some of the pressure off and makes them seem not so much a threat to the other teams (Riiiighhht.)
7) Sheri & Cole - She stands in front of Phil crying with her head down again... I guess Cole did have his arm around her but he's still dead to me now. Phil tells Sheri to hold her head up, because they are still racing! And he hands them the clue to the next leg... So no one eliminated, except Cole has a long way to go to redeem himself to me.
Next week: There is a detailed dance they have to learn (Oh no, the kiss of TAR Death.)
Have a great week everyone,
Coleen
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