The Amazing Race segment this week took the teams to St. Petersburg, Russia where the teams had to travel 12,000 miles by car, train and plane. The first to depart was Nat and Kat. The teams had to find the Rostral Columns to get their next clue. In the clue, the teams had to choose between classical music and classic cinema.
In classical music, they had to go to a historic palace to find a maestro with 3 gramophones to listen to 3 different compositions being played. Teams had to enter 2 adjacent ballroom filled with piano and pianists. Ay..ya...yay.... that was insane!!!! All of them were playing at the same time!!!! Wow!!!! A mentally challenging game that needs the utmost concentration!!!! Do you think you have the concentration needed for this challenge??? The teams had a hard time figuring out which piano was playing the correct composition that some of them gave up and went to the other clue!!! Once the correct composition was identified, the next clue was given!
In classic cinema, teams had to travel to Lenfilms, a legendary film studio and a soundstage where the first movie was screened in Russia. Teams had to search through piles of film clips and find one that matched any scene playing on the screen. Yikes!!! You should have seen the faces of the teams when they saw the mound of films!!!! Once they find the correct clip of Sergei Eisentein's classic film, October, they will get the next clue!
Partners Jill and Thomas were the first to get the film right. They proceeded to Palace Square in the town of Aleksandrovskaya, where one team member had to put on a traditional babushka clothing and plant a row of 50 potatoes, fertilized with cow manure!!! Wow!!! That was really an exhausting, physical demanding task!!! That was good that the younger Wu did it! I do not think the elder Wu would have done the task successfully!!!
The Pit Stop was at St. Isaac's Cathedral, the largest Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg. Kevin and Michael should have been first but Kevin did not listen to his father, Michael, to check in the park across the street! Kevin, you should sometimes listen to your father's wisdom!!! That is what sometimes happens...the children think they know everything!!!! Nenenenene, Kevin, it cost you to be number one and the trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil which Jill and Thomas won!!!
Vicki and Nick was the last team to arrive, but they did not get eliminated because it was a non-elimination leg of the race!!! Lucky them!!! And they were also lucky that they did not have any penalties for being the last team to arrive!!!
Seems that the winners of a leg constantly changes, which is really good. There will be more winners of prizes, and it seems that every team has an equal chance of winning the million dollars!!! Who do you think will be the winner??? Comments????
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