Amazing Race: Leg 2

(as always, spoilers are all over the place if you haven’t seen the episode)

The one thing that’s so addicting about the Amazing Race is that it really seems to bring out the BEST in people.

Okay, that’s not exactly right, but it does seems to bring out who you really are at times. Of course some situations are going to be highly frustrating, but that alone usually doesn’t turn someone into a complete and utter headcase. You kind of have to be that way already.

Just ask poor Christina.

Christina’s father Ronald was all over the place. He blasted Nicholas into the next century, questioning who he actually was as a person and more. Granted, Nicholas was kind of a jerk to that airline ticket counter agent, but where did Ronald get off totally going ripping into him?

And then he just publicly, and apparently LOUDLY, berates his daughter, saying she disappointed him.

Wow. Christina was taking it much better than I would have. Hopefully her father listens to her pleas and wakes up on the right side of the bed for Leg 3.

My main team Azariah and Hendekea totally let me down by choosing the Hunt It challenge. You have one challenge right there that you can SEE, and the other is to search through millions of bikes and then ride them FIVE miles?

How could that one seem better to anyone?

Because of their insane decision, they lost their hold of first place and let my other team, Jason and Lorena take over the top position at the pit stop.

The two lesbian ministers were the second team to be eliminated from the race as they missed bus #30 and a chance to keep up with the sisters and the grandpa/grandson team. N o surprise there really…they were kind of slow and would never make it far in this game.

This leg was pretty good in the fact that there wasn’t a great big bunching up of teams except at the start, and the planes were spaced apart, people missed trains, buses and the quickest ways to get places.

By the way, could Kynt and Vyxsin remind us yet again that they are Goth? “We like the dark!” Okay, we get it…it’s not like we couldn’t tell from the costumes you are wearing. Also, do you really believe those are their real names?

I could have done without grandpa Donald stripping down to his skimpies. And then later when Phil asked him about it, he said that wasn’t all?? Did we miss an additional scene? Thank the editors for leaving that one on the cutting room floor.

(Maybe it will be on the DVD)

The pit stop had some funny moments, one of them an interesting camera shot from BEHIND a clothes line with a bra hanging in the picture and a team arriving in the distance. What was the intention there? That this is how people in Amsterdam live? No electric dryers?

And there was another bra hanging from another clothes line behind Phil at the stop. Not sure if it was the same one, but it was still odd.

The funniest part of the night, and I can’t remember who it was now, maybe it was the sisters, was when the team said “where is the pit stop?” while riding the basket bicycle right past Phil with him looking at them from maybe 30 feet away.

You gotta wonder if Phil’s ego was hurt by that. His one magic eyebrow did seem a bit off its game.

And as far as the contest, no one lost anyone so we’re all still alive. Here is the complete list of participants:

Mike: Azaria/Hendekea, Rachel/TK, Lorena/Jason

Jina: Azaria/Hendekea, Rachel/TK, Marianna/Julia

Tracy: Ari/Staella, Rachel/TK, Jennifer/Nathan

Scott: TK/Rachel, Azaria/Hendekea

Nicky: Jennifer/Nathan, Azaria/Hendekea

Kat: Nathan/Jenny, Kynt/Vyxsin