Monday, November 3, 2008

Amazing Race-Hot and Sweaty in India

Leaving beautiful Cambodia first are Nick and Starr at 11:22 pm, followed by Toni and Dallas just 10 minutes behind with the Frat boys leaving last. All boarded the same flight to Delhi, India, which as always promises to be a bag of mix confusion. A budding romance is occurring between Starr and Dallas. At least she doesn't think he looks like teen wolf. First at the road block to paint one of the local tut tut taxis green, are Nick and Starr. How are they always the first ones off the plane? Joining them surprisingly are frat boys, Dan and Andrew, with all the other teams lost in India somewhere. The driving looks totally confusing, with cars, taxis and cows sharing the road equally. Tina and Ken are having an especially hard time with their cab driver trying to find Moonlight Motors, but Tina insist she knows the way. Sometime later they are still lost in India. Finally all teams arrive to the road block to join in the painting. Tina trying to make up some lost time is bossing poor Ken on how to tape and paint. Which is exactly what Terence is doing to poor Sarah. I think Tina and Terence should hook up with Ken and Sarah pairing off, then Tina and Terence can really duke it out, they're both such A-type personalities. I thought Sarah should have spray painted Terence's face for pestering her. Hey, doesn't she remind you of another currently famous Sarah? The detour is to either launder money or launder clothes. Humm, that was a hard one to choose. Ironing clothes seems like cake but it really was the more daunting of task. Teams had to iron 20 pieces of clothing. Not too hard right? First off, was this the Indian version of a public Laundromat? I guess they've never heard of washing machines and dryers. There were guys manually slapping clothes on stone just like in biblical times and where the women were ironing dried (probably sun dried) clothes. The irons were something from the 1800's, some kind of heavy hot charcoal heated thing. I had to crack up how Nick and Starr were just so prepared by bringing their own gloves. Who knew? The other teams are like where did you get your gloves? Starr's like their ours, yep we're that good! And what was Andrew frat boy ironing? It looked like some grandma panties as he complains that he can't iron these. The Frat boys are having a real difficult time of it. Hey, it's just ironing! They make it seem like it's the most difficult thing in the world and when a big gust of wind blew all their hard ironing on the ground even the spectators had a good laugh. The only teams to chose launder money were Ken and Tina and Sarah and Terence. See those two teams really are on the same wave length. Here the teams had to fashion an Indian version of a money lei out of rupees and give it to the groom. What a mob scene, hope no one yells fire! That definitely was the easier task, the only thing hard was trying to find someone to make a money exchange. Both teams after finishing the leis are trying to find the groom. Now wouldn't you think it would be someone in ceremonial garb possibly at some special table? Tina kept asking everyone in the mob if he were the groom. Finally, when Tina and Ken finished their task, Tina was like oh our taxi guy waited, bless his heart. I would have been like, get lost taxi man since he didn't have the slightest clue where anything was. The unfortunate taxi rides cost Ken and Tina their last place finish with Nick and Starr one again placing first, Kelly and Christy second and Mom and Dallas third. Fortunately for Ken (quit your weeping and tell Tina where to get off) and Tina this was really a non elimination round and will suffer a speed bump on the next leg of the race which means they will not be able to make any mistakes or be on the next plane home.-Single D

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