The Amazing Race - Phil returns to his homeland & I want some kiwi juice!
Episode Recap by Wolfie
CBS The Amazing Race: Previously Ken and Tina came in first, Mark and Bill were eliminated. La Paz Bolivia, the world's highest capital was our third pit stop. Kelly and Christy confronted Starr & Nick about being told they (Nick and Starr) had asked Aja and Ty to U turn Kelly & Christy. This lends more tension to the relationship between Kelly & Christy and Nick & Starr on top of the sports bra "incident". Kelly & Christy are not afraid of confrontation and they actually seem to enjoy it. It may well come back to bite them later.Click Read More (below) for the full recap.
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Flying to Auckland, New Zealand Ken & Tina leave first then Toni & Dallas. They all end up on the same flight which aggravates Ken. I guess he hasn't watched the show much.
At the airport Andrew and Dan say they are keeping Marissa & Brooke around and helping them a little because they are not a stronger team and besides they are cute.
Everyone seems to be checking flights on computers around the airport.
Aja and Ty getting frustrated with each other and starting to gripe at each other. He accuses her of getting attitude. She knows he's right.
When they arrive in New Zealand they race out to get their cars to drive themselves to Gulf Harbor to untie a knot that looks like a big ball that has a clue in it.
Aja and Ty have a blowout. He has never had a flat tire in his life, doesn't know how to change it. She's out on the side of the street yelling help. They are not happy with each other right now. She gets a guy to stop and fix their tire for them.
The clue says to Drive themselves to the summit of Mount Eden. a Fast Forward, the first of only two.
FF says go to the sky tower, climb to the top. Ken and Tina and Dan & Andrew try for it. Dan & Andrew arrive at the tower second so they go back to do the regular route.
Sky City. The FF. They climb this rope up the tower while hitched up to harness.
For the rest of them the Road Block that only one person may perform. Choose image of tattoo from a pouch on one warrior then walk among the tattooed warriors and find the match. If they match wrong the warrior takes their image and they must start again. If they match right the warrior gives them their next clue. The warriors are scary. They are dancing around dressed in typical aborigine gear in a fierce looking way.
Ken and Tina are doing the fast forward climb.
Terrence is doing the tattoo task. The first time he tries to match it's wrong and the warrior takes his image and runs away. Now drive to downtown Auckland and find a hotel, make their way to roof top for next clue.
Toni is doing the warrior task. Dallas says please do not eat my mom. LOL She gets the match first try. Now on to Citylife Hotel. Use binoculars to scan area and find a gnome, retrieve it along with their next clue.
Tina is climbing the sky tower with Ken but it's scary. It's like an open radio tower and it's windy and very high.
Marissa & Brooke having a very hard time finding the round ball knot they need to find to unravel to get the clue (to go to the warriors).
Ken is very proud of Tina, but she tells him he is the one who must grasp the gnome there at the top. She's holding on for dear life and I don't blame her one bit. I'm not a fan of heights so I feel for her, for the first time this season. Actually those two are doing very well in the race as well as doing very well with each other. Some couples get positives from the race while others seem to find their weaknesses as a couple. These two are surprisingly finding their way back together.
Kelly gets the warrior right, Andrew is working on it Then Andrew gets it.
At the top of the hotel, with binoculars, when you see the gnome, you have to go down and go get it where ever it is. They are all in various places that can be seen from the hotel rooftop.
Now drive yourself to landmark Kiwi 360.
Starr is trying to find the warrior tattoo match.
Andrew and Dan go after gnome on a bench.
Starr finds the tattoo match. They are on top of the hotel with Kelly and Christy looking for gnomes and see one first. That aggravates Kelly and Christy since they arrived before Nick and Starr.
Marissa & Brooke get the tattoo match finally
Aja and Ty spy a gnome.
Ken and Tina win first place again! They win a trip to Rio.
The detour - "Matter of time", use bare feet to crush kiwi to get 12 qts of juice or race a blowcart around a track 3 laps, but you must assemble the blowcart which looks like a go cart with a sail instead of an engine. There is an instructor to tell you how to do this.
Terrence and Sarah doing kiwi juice. There are rocks at the bottom of the big tub they are in with all of the kiwi fruit. There are two spouts at the bottom where the juice flows out to fill up the containers. They drink a big glass of the juice after it's done. I would like that part, I love kiwi fruit.
Dallas and Toni doing Kiwi juice. It's hard on their feet.
Aja and Ty are having navigation problems finding a road.
Terrence and Sarah get juice done first. Make their way to pit stop.
Dallas and Toni try the juice but the spout gets plugged, and /or it hurts his feet too much so they give up and go to the other task, with the blowcarts.
Nick and Starr choose fruit. They too give up on that and go to the blowcarts.
Terrence and Sarah 2nd to arrive.
Andrew and Dan are juicing but having trouble so they go to the blowcarts.
Kelly and Christy doing juice
Dallas & Toni riding the carts must complete 3 laps and they do.
Kelly and Christy finish juice.
Toni and Dallas finish blowcart
Andrew and Dan doing carts, but having trouble because you have to assemble the cart. I think Andrew has to help Dan get his cart put together. This is not their best task.
Instructor says if you start to crash "Don't put your hands out."
Aja and Ty try juice.
Kelly and Christy arrive team 3
Andrew & Dan having trouble putting cart together.
Starr puts her arm out when she crashes, says she thinks she broke it.
Toni and Dallas team arrive 4
Starr is going to finish anyway. They finish and go towards pit stop but her arm is hurt. She's driving with one arm. Nick changes places with her and he drives.
Dan realizes how much he needs Andrew and is not going to be boasting about being so great anymore.
Nick and Starr team 5 No one mentions her arm, so we don't know if it was broken or not. I guess not. Maybe we will find out next week.
Aja and Ty at blowcart
Andrew and Dan are team 6 to arrive. And they are thrilled they are still in the race. They thought they were farther behind than that.
Marisa and Brooke at the kiwi juicer.
Aja and Ty can't get cart together correctly.
It's dark now for both of these teams.
Juice is done, so is blowcart, they are going to the pit stop.
Ty and Aja arrive team 7
Brooke and Marissa are last team to arrive. And they are eliminated. Phil's dad is the greeter at the pit stop and he says he thinks these girls need a hug. They are crying. Phil asks if he is offering to hug them, he says he is and he does. How cute!
Next week Terrence gets in trouble with the law. Pulled over by a cop. And Kelly and Christy's behavior gets annoying. Well they've been annoying me, but it looks like they are now annoying Toni and Dallas as well.
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