Amazing Race ~ April 22/16 *possible spoilers*

Last night's episode was so enjoyable!

I so wanted the team with the girl who did the salt challenge to come in before Brody & what's his name. She worked so hard carrying that water.

Those kites were the bomb.

I'm rooting for mama & Cole to win. They won't. But, I so want to see them win. They are great together and mama is a tough cookie.

I was worried about the poor snake on Dana. She was running and its head was flailing all around. Thought it was going to get brain damage or a broken neck. Lol!

I was so hoping Rachel & Zach would beat out Brodie & Kurt!

I want Tyler & Korey or Burnie & Ashley to win. I think Cole & his mom have had a great partnership and attitude, but they have made so many mistakes and were so lucky to get two nonelimination legs, I just can't root for them to win.

I hadn't noticed how much Kurt was carrying their team. Brodie gave up on the water puzzle so quickly in the last episode and they used the express pass to stay in first place, not just to avoid elimination. They could easily have had second place on that leg if he had put a little more effort into it and used the express pass this week. This week was the first time I heard tension between them and it was all coming from Brodie. I get the feeling he is not a good loser and is going to struggle in the next few legs. Having Kurt do most of the Roadblocks may have kept them at the front of the pack and given them 4 first place legs, but it isn't likely to give them the only prize that really counts on the final leg.

Oh my, I have a true snake phobia. Comes from a near childhood (well early teen experience) of almost getting bitten by a rattlesnake. The whole shake, shake, shake of the rattle and everything. That snake was right behind a group of us girls who were sitting on some rocks and resting during a 3 day hike up some mountains in Virginia. My sister was there and she has the same snake phobia.  We girls got up and ran so fast away from that snake. This was in the early 1970's, no cell phones back then. We were hiking with a group of young teen boys too, and our Episcopalian minister. No one was bitten, but I think to myself what would have happened if one of us had been? We were 2 1/2 days up into those mountains. 

Anyway, I don't think I could have done that challenge. Our youngest sister had a python like that (just as big) as a pet and kept it in a huge, plexiglass cage. I could barely look at it from across the room. I had to be out of the house when she'd take it out of the cage. Kudos to all of the racers who were able to make it through that challenge. 

I agree with all of you about Kurt and Brodie. I was really hoping they'd get eliminated last night. It was sad to see Rachel and Zach go home but I wonder, why as a team would they have chosen for Rachel to do that salt challenge anyway? All of the other teams seemed to realize (at least those with male/female teams) how physical the challenge was. 

Brodie's cockiness was really starting to bug me and hopefully this leg of the race has brought him down a notch or two. They were such idiots to use that pass when they did and I mentioned that (although not as strongly) last week. He also annoyed me when he was looking at Rachel's kite (I think it was hers) to get an idea of how to put his together. If I was her I would have made some comment to him. I guess it didn't matter because they did have an example to look at but if I was her it would have bugged me. 

Rachel and Zach made a comment of wanting to use the money to adopt internationally and how expense that was, so I didn't want them going home last night. I would much rather have seen Brodie and Kurt, Dana and what's his name, or even Mama and Cole go home over them. Although my favorites are still Rachel and Bernie with Tyler and Corey being my top favorite team. 

Debbie in MD.

Oh, and I'm at a point where I don't even think about any of the teams being youtubers anymore. I was so aware of it at the beginning, but now that everyone is more focused on the competition, I'm just not aware of the differences between them and any other team the last few legs.

They definitely seem to have have reached the point where they see this as a real game that they have a chance to win instead of just another fun way to promote themselves and their youtube channel.  They're getting down to business, now.   (For the most part.  There was one point when Sherri was telling people where to go and I was thinking "You need to catch up this leg, girl! This is not the time for helpful hints with Sherri!"     )