Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Amazing Race-Shanghai and He Pingping

All teams board a flight to Shanghai, China, with Brent exclaiming that all those charming waterways reminded him of Sicily, er don't you mean Venice? Shanghai, the Venice of China, looks absolutely beautiful and clean... put on bucket list. I've been to Hong Kong and the Hunan Provence, but never to Shanghai. Isn't that where Tom Cruise runs though the alleyways in Mission Impossible? The roadblock is to make China's famed noodles by hand, where they are greeted by a impossibly small Chinese Mini Mee, He Pingping, who sadly the episode was in tribute to because he passed away in March of this year from heart complications. Probably from all that smoking as he sucked cigarettes after cigarettes, he was a chain smoker. As the cowboys said, smoking does stunt your growth. He Pingping was entered into Guinness World Book of Records as the world smallest man (tell me that shoe is a size 12?) and he was certainly a cutie. Louie bragged that he's Italian and could make pasta, which turned out to be an utter disaster. Jordan kept complaining about his frozen fingers, woosie, and Brent kept yelling at Caite to go faster. Shut your pie hole! Jet plowed on in quite diligence like they usually do and managed to finish first and run to the next roadblock, making a large stadium puzzle sign. I was so hoping that Brent and Caite would mess this challenge up especially when a big gust of wind swept Brent's puzzle pieces away, but it would be the detectives, who had a pretty good run of doing mostly everything without a hiccup, couldn't master puzzle making. Come on, it's a puzzle, you should be good at solving it. Fortunately for them, this was a non-elimination leg and they live to see another day of racing. This will probably be a show down with the four teams running to the finish. Still hoping for oh my gravy to win first!-Single D

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