Monday, March 16, 2009

Amazing Race-Racing in Russia

Christi and Jodi are the first to leave at 12:34 pm, which was their first and probably their last time to step on the mat in a first place finish. Kisha and Jen leaving right on their heels at 12:36. No matter what the finish time, all racers bunch up at the train station for the 10:26pm departure of the Trans Siberian Railroad for an overnight leg to Russia. Sleeping cars are more idealized in the movies, like in "White Christmas", where Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen have a nice cozy sleeping car to Vermont, because American trains dim in comparison to European trains. Getting off in Russia, it looks cold, stark and very unfriendly. The roadblock, Russian bride or Russian snowplow. I totally thought it would be harder to find the bride in that apartment building, but it turned out to be relatively simple. Of course the stunt midgets chose to do the snowplows which were made for giants to handle and not midgets. Oh well, small guys, big machines. The detour was a traditional winter run through the snow in one's underwear. Gee go figure, did the producers tell the girls to wear their best underwear, except someone forgot to tell Kisha even to wear underwear. Umm, whose underwear did she borrow? As my mother always told me, wear clean underwear you never know what might happen, ya like running a race in -4 degrees. And go figure, all the girls on the teams have great figures especially Jen running in her thong and giving Russians an eyeful. Mike looked hilarious running with his stark white body and clumping army boots. It was a close race to the end, with Kisha and Jen coming in almost last because they couldn't drive the stick shift for nothing and Jodi and Christi's last place finish because they kept getting lost, lucked out because it was a non elimination round. They're not long for this race because the next leg, they will have to do both detours and for them completing one is a challenge let alone two.-Single D

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