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We are still in the Czeck Republic.   First stop is the road block that is Franz Kafkaesque.  Very cool!  Large room liking to a 1940s office with a million ringing phones.  People have to answer phones until they have 5 letters and then have to see the supervisor and fill out a form and then unscramble the letters to reveal “franz”.  How hard could this be?  To either sam/dan and the Big Easy very hard.  They agree to work with each other and kept trying out combinations……..roflmao……..Well you know what happened.  Sam/Dan got the right answer and then refused to give it up to Big Easy.  Very bad indeed.  But seriously there is only 1vowel. How hard can it be?  I should mention that bond daters got their first and very quickly got the answer and were off.  Apparently Big Easy was there for 2.5 hours when team zebra rolled in after doing their speed bump.  Speed bump consisted of making a local drink and then drinking it.  Apparently Mr. Zebra does not drink so was a bit drunk.  Anyways he breezes in and in 2 tries gets the answer and leaves.  Big Easy then takes the penalty, meanwhile I am screaming at the tv, “It’s Franz try Franz”.  They get a 4 hour penalty. 

Next we are off to a place where to get the clue you have to stay for 2 minutes in negative 180 degrees.  Then it’s off to the detour where it is legend or lager.  In legend teams have to make a golem which is spreading clay on a form and deliver it to a temple across town.  Blond Daters do it  and then sam/dan whine all the way.  Team Zebra decides to do lager and have to deliver 30 beers from the brewery to the pub.  Sounds easy except in Europe people try to steal your beers whilst you are walking.  Took them all night but they did it.  Team Globetrotters are out and running for the million are blond daters, sam/dan, and team zebra.

I like anyone but the brothers!

Well we are off to Prague.  Another leg of no-airport-drama as all teams got the same flight.  They had to find a antique Praga in the city center.  Only two teams, blonde daters and Globetrotters had the sense to find out what it was before flying out.  It is a car.  Right out of the gate team zebra took bad advice and took a bus to the trams, all other teams jumped into cabs.  You can probably guess that team zebra fell way behind.  First they had to do a detour at an extreme sport spot.  Either whitewater kayaking or ropes course.  The brothers (who are beginning to bug me) chose kayaking but then switched amongst much whining.  Then there was commotion at the end of the ropes course because blonde daters finished first but the little globetrotter finished and was waiting for Big Easy when the staff told him to climb down the scaffolding.  He was going slow and the blondes yelled at him so he went even slower.  I agree that the team with both teammates should have been allowed off first.  By now team zebra caught up and the brothers changed detours.  Both teams were on the ropes at the same time.  The brothers finished first and stole team zebra’s cab.  Oooooooh not good.  Next we go to a famous theater, which was absolutely beautiful, and must find a minature instrument.  Wowie, that looked hard.  Blondes left first, followed by brothers then Globetrotters and finally team zebra.  We knew when the first team checked in and weren’t announced as one of the 3 teams racing for the million…..we knew it was non elimination.

See ya next week!

Great leg.  We head to Estonia.  Big bunch up at the ferry which puts everyone together again.  First we have to find a secret society that has existed for over 600 years (very cool) and then use the keys given to figure out to use key on gate and not door.  Everyone figured it out quickly.  They had a roadblock there where one team member had to  find a candle and find the room then use the scroll on the candle to reveal clue.  We then head to the detour where they either play volleyball in the bog or use slingshots.  Meanwhile Pinky and the Brain had to do a speed bump to make up for the non-elimination last week.  They had to stay in a sauna bus for 5 minutes which was enough to throw them off and they were eliminated.

Sam/Dan the gay brothers are starting to really bug me with their whining.

Another great leg!  We leave Amsterdam and head to Sweden.  Three teams make the first flight – Dan/Sam; blonde daters and the Globetrotters.  The other two teams make a later flight that puts them behind – Dad/son and marrieds.  First they have to go to an amusement park and one member has to do the tallest ride, one of those drop things.  On the ride they must spot the arrow to the clue box.  The clue has them go to the detour where they either have to blow up something or decode a Viking alphabet.  All teams choose to blow up something.  The Globetrotters slip behind the first two teams.  It is the shorter ones birthday and he wants to come in first for the leg for his birthday.  Seems unlikely mid leg.  The roadblock is a switchback task from another season.  The dreaded hay bales.  You TAR diehards will remember the season that Lena/Kristy were eliminated when one of them spent 10 hours unrolling hay bales.  Coming into the roadblock in order is:  Brothers, then Blonde daters, the Globetrotters catch up and pulling up the rear neck and neck is Marrieds then Dad/son.  The first two teams had been there for 2 hours by this time.  Globetrotters find the clue first and happy birthday to shortie they  are team #1.  We then have blonde daters finally finding the clue, and husband from daters.  Meanwhile one of the brothers has been heckling his brother the whole time.  I could not believe it!  He finally shut up and brother found the clue.  Dad/son came in last but it was a non-elimination.  I am happy because I like them.  I don’t care who wins for I like all the teams.

Another awesome episode!  We start out leaving Dubai and flying to Amsterdam.  First we have to have a road block and someone has to climb a tower and count the bells.  All teams but Brian and his girl finish quickly.  Brian’s girl had a hard time but finally counted correctly.  To be honest, it looked hard as the bells were on different levels and were different sizes and they were ringing.

Then we go to a town and the detour is Farm Games or Farm Dance.  In farm games you have to dress up in traditional clothing and bike to a river and swim across it in traditional underclothes and then play farm golf for three holes and not surpassing 8 strokes per hole.  In farm dance they had to don the clothes and bike to a place and ring a bell, much like the strongman bell at a carnival.  Then you had to take traditional dance instructions and then dance for the crowd and then eat herring and onions.  The poker girls started out for the dance but could not hit the bell so then changed to golf but could not manage that so they went back to the dance but still could not hit the bell so they ended up back at the golf.  meanwhile Brian and his girl do the dance pretty quickly but forget to ride a bike and are penalized at the mat for 30 minutes.  This is not enough time for the Poker girls to catch up and they quit anyways.  So Poker girls out!  The brothers came in first.

Great episode!  Still in Dubai, first had to paddle out to a yacht and get clue for briefcase.  Globetrotters had a hard time since Big Easy didn’t catch on that the watch said 8:35 and kept trying to do the hands, snicker snicker.  Then had to go to a marketplace and either do putting together a hookah or figuring out how much gold weights for 1/2 mill in their currency with the market changing.  After that they had to slide down a water slide and the Christians did terrible.  The girl would not go down and my boys the Globetrotters were heckling her to not go down so they got to go ahead of them and they won out and the Christians were eliminated.  I had to laugh.

During the pit stop the boat took them to an unknown city and they had to find their way to Ho Chi Minh.  Now in a race where you have to transport a statue of an animal through the crowded streets, DO NOT PICK THE GIRAFFE!  The guys, that are friends, chose the giraffe and was it ever topsy-turvy.  What a shock.  The older, internet dating couple were eliminated because she is just out there, I mean out there.  Elimination Station ought to be fun.

I like, the Globetrotters, the blond dating couple, the brothers, team zebra (self-named) and Pinky and the Brain.

I really dislike Lance and Kerri/Terri ?????  Stop screaming and leave my tv.

Phil is back and he is fabulous!.  We start out with 12 teams in the famous LA river thingy.  When he shouted GO!, they had to run to a fence and find the license plate that matches the region of Japan they are going.  Only enough tickets for 11 teams.  Of course, no one notices the symbols AT THE TOP OF THE CLUE.  Panic ensues until people start actually reading the clues.  The Badass Yogis (self-named) were left out.  OOOOOOOh that’s gotta hurt.

We then went to Japan and participated in a Japanese game show which is sushi roulette.  I hate food challenges.  It also dragged out way to long.  Once the team at the wasabi they got a team of 20 tourists and have to take them through the crowded street to meet Phil.  One team, the poker playing liars, lost 2 tourists and were last but it was a non-elimination. 

Now we are off to Viet Nam where we work at a fruit farm and use mud and then we heard ducks and then a dating team with a mean boyfriend went home.

Phil was FABULOUS!  Oh don’t forget to watch Elimination Station on the link on the sidebar.  Click on Amazing Race link