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Amazing Race: Turning Point in the Game

Published: December 3, 2007 at 07:45 PM GMT
Last Updated: December 3, 2007 at 07:45 PM GMT

By Libby Pelham

On this week’s Amazing Race on CBS (aired Dec. 2), the teams left Burkina Faso for Vilnius, Lithuania. They were told they had to get their tickets from an official airline office, not off the Internet. But that didn’t stop them from searching the Internet in a café for the best flights.

Ronald and Christina ended up at the Air France office first, but somehow got the worst tickets. Perhaps it was because Ronald told Christina to have the agent “expand beyond the fossilization of these carriers.” Who talks like that? I like Ronald, but that was just too funny a statement. nyhow, they booked a flight through Prague that arrived at 2:10 p.m.

Meanwhile, the other teams were scrambling for good seats. I am not quite sure what happened with Donald and Nicolas, but then I don’t think they know either. They asked their agent for tickets through Amsterdam. That was the earliest flight, arriving at 1:25 p.m. They arrived at the office first and told the agent to give everyone else later flights as the other teams arrived. Hendekea was like “Hello, we are right behind you listening!”

As Donald and Nicolas’ agent worked (very slowly, I might add) to get them the best flight, Azaria and Hendekea sat down and got the 1:25 p.m flight very easily. Then Donald and Nicolas were told by their agent that that flight was full. You could just see the smirk on Hendekea’s face. Even Nathan said it was karma. So Nicolas told her to book them on the next best flight, one going through Frankfurt and arriving at 1:35 p.m. They got the tickets and got up. Nathan and Jennifer sat down and miraculously, the same agent found tickets for them on the 1:25 p.m flight!

Maybe the agent understood Nicolas a little better than he thought she did. When they left, TK and Rachel asked for the same flight and it was full…again. Once Nicolas found out that Nathan and Jennifer got the better flight after he had left, he was not happy.

Goths Kynt and Vyxsin also made the 1:25 p.m. flight and Shana and Jennifer ended up on the 1:35 p.m. flight. Ronald and Christina were on the late flight alone.

Once the teams landed in Vilnius, they drove to St. Anne’s church. There, they ran into a Roadblock called “Who’s a Better Listener?” Donald and Nicolas were the first to arrive and Nicolas decided he would do the roadblock. He had to deliver a package to the Vilnius University Courtyard, and then pick up another package to deliver to one of four places to get the next clue. He found the courtyard pretty easily, but could not find the hair salon.

But then Hendekea also had trouble. It was a stroke of luck that TK found some fellow hippies to help him find the courtyard and second destination very easily. I couldn’t believe it when Nathan and Jennifer got lost on the way to the roadblock and he told her “I just can’t believe what kind of person you’ve turned into. It’s the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.” By the time they reached the pit stop, all was well, but that seems like awful harsh words for someone you love.

Shana and Jennifer, the Blondes, got lost on the way to St. Anne’s, which really put them behind. Poor Nicolas was still searching for the hair salon when they showed up. The Blondes completed the roadblock and left just before he finally found someone to help him find it. So Nicolas was the first there and the last to leave.

The teams then drove to Rumsiskes for their next clue. Apparently, Lithuania is the “gnome capital of the world” (at least for a product placement plug for Travelocity’s logo). The teams had to scan the village for the Travelocity gnome, but had to search through 100 gnomes scattered all over the garden. Once they found the gnome, they had to carry him with them to the pit stop.

After finding the gnome, they went to a local festival. Next up was a Detour: “Countdown or Step Up.” For countdown, they had to count the 717 pickets in a fence. For step up, they had to walk on stilts to a finish line.

Kynt and Vyxsin, the first ones there, tried the stilt walking, but then switched to picket counting. The only problem with picket counting was the locals at the festival were trying to distract the teams. I loved it when Kynt saw the locals dressed up for the festival and asked, “Where’s my costume?” I thought he had been wearing it the whole show!

Azaria and Hendekea tried stilt walking first, but gave it up for counting. Ronald kept falling off the stilts, but finally finished. Of course, Nathan and Jennifer fought through picket counting, with him calling her a “bitch” at one point for asking if she could pass him while he was counting. They came up with the wrong number at least twice before getting it right.

Shana and Jennifer continued to argue. Part of it was the animosity created over the U-Turn that Shana wanted to do and Jennifer was still regretting.

TK and Rachel were the first to arrive at the pit stop, a windmill. For finishing first, they won a 10-day vacation to Japan. TK said he honestly thought they were lost most of the episode because there weren’t others around them.

Kynt and Vyxsin continued to prove they are a strong, albeit strange team by finishing second. Ronald and Christina managed to overcome arriving last in Lithuania to finish in third. Azaria and Hendekea struggled a bit this episode and finished in fourth. Nathan and Jennifer fought their way to fifth place.

Donald and Nicolas managed to finish in sixth; pretty impressive considering how long Nicolas was at the roadblock. Shana and Jennifer finished last and they were told by Phil that they had been eliminated. I guess that is what they get for naming their chicken after him.

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