Amazing Race, 11202010

The teams on this episode had to fly 2,000 miles from Muscat to Dhaka, Bangladesh. The first to leave was Chad and Stephanie. Will Chad and Stephanie continue with their lucky streak, or will they be eliminated? This is the beauty of the show, no one knows who will emerge victorious at the end of each leg of the race. There are so many variables, plus the race is not for the faint of heart! You have to have endurance, stamina and brain power to succeed! It is unlike the other reality shows where you wait for the votes, either outside or from your peers, which sometimes is not fair! If you have a good fan base, then you will win! What are you talking about???Now, now, I am deviating from my topic, so I will leave it. Okay???

The teams have to go to Sundorban Square supermarket to find a sugar cane press. Each team had to fill a large mug with sugar cane juice and one team member had to drink it to get the next clue! That must have been a yummy drink!! I remembered munching on sugar cane and it was sooo sweet!!! You cannot eat the whole thing, you just have to get the juice out!!! Then you have to spit out the thing! Yikes!!! Spit!! That is gross!!! Not really spit, but throw it out, okay??? What thing?? I guess the sugar cane pulp or whatever it is called! Come on, someone help me with the right name!!! So much for that.....Once they accomplish this task, they will get the next clue!

The next clue took the teams to do either Balanced Bricks or Balanced Meal. In Balanced Meal, teams had to pick up a midday snack called tiffin, which is delivered in a stack of metal containers. Ha! I have seen this in old movies! I am surprised that they are still using it in some parts of the world! Well, there are many things that are still done the old fashioned way!!! Here, in America,we just put it in plastic containers, and presto! you have your lunch!! We have really become people that go for modern things!!! I wonder how much those metal containers cost in auction??? Hmmm, after all, they are antique!!! I also wonder if someone here still has some of those??? Anyway, the teams had to travel to a harbor to a cargo ship where they have to hoist 30 containers to the deck. How hard is that??? Seems like an easy task, is it not? Once the meals were delivered, teams had to return with 10 empty containers!Only then will they get the next clue!!

In Balanced Bricks, teams had to transport 100 bricks using their heads from a supply shop to a nearby shop. Ay..ya..yay!!!! Won't that break your neck??? That is a lot of bricks!!! Can you do it??? I doubt it. Can you??? Once the bricks are delivered, the clue is handed to them!!!

There is a new twist to the episode: a double u turn! Two teams had to pick a team to go back and perform the other side of the detour! Woe are the teams that will be u-turned! This might be a costly task for them! Jill and Thomas targeted Brook and Claire, Nat and Kat u-turned Chad and Stephanie!!! Oh, oh, I can see the words revenge written all over Chad's face!!

The next clue took them to a rickshaw cycle shop at Nazira Bazaar where each team had to assemble one. That must really be a huge business for rickshaw in Bangladesh! Wowie!!! I could just imagine how hard it is to assemble one, just like what the teams experienced! The rickshaw has to be assembled perfectly or there will be accidents with people riding it!! Can you just imagine, if a person is riding it and all of a sudden, it falls apart??? Yuck!!! Please do not think of such a thing!!! Sorry, I could not help it! Once the task is done, they can go to the Pit Stop at Lalbagh Fort.

Jill and Thomas were the first to arrive and they won $15,000 Discover gift card! That is another beauty of the show.....contestants keep getting prizes along the way, and they are not cheap prizes either!!! So, are we going to audition for the next show??? Of course..... not!!!! Ha! Ha! Ha! You thought I will say yes!!! Not this kid!!! I do not think I could last more than one leg!!! How about a million dollars??? Is that enough incentive??? Nope!!!!

Sad to say, Chad Waltrip,26 and Stephanie Smith,23, newly engaged were eliminated.The u-turn cost them dearly, but at least they are engaged and they won a trip!!! That is why, the first cannot always remain as the first in this reality show!!! Too many variables, and soo many surprises!!!!