Three weeks in a row the formerly bumbling detectives, Louie & Michael, have made it to the Pitstop as Team #1.They are starting to get a tad cocky. I guess with good reason. But after one of the detectives successfully detected a special cluster of grapes, it got grating the number of times he mentioned he had eagle eyes.
This week they were still in France. France was not being all that interesting. They were racing in the Champagne region. Next week The Amazing Race finally gets out of Europe and goes to an island republic in the Indian Ocean, Seychelles.
The Roadblock and Detours this week were tiresome. For the Roadblock, rappel down a hole to a cave where bottles of champagne are stored. Hunt for the marked bottle.
At the Detour choose between hunting over a big vineyard for a special cluster of grapes. Or stack champagne glasses into a pyramid and then pour a giant bottle of champagne into the top glass.
The hunt for the grape cluster seemed the smart choice. But smart is in short supply with some of this group. Though, brothers, Dan & Jordan, did stack the glasses, successfully, it took a long time.
Jeff & Jordan spent a lot of time lost again, as did several of the other teams, going back and forth between towns looking for their next clue.
Steve & Allie had a little fender bender that rendered their car inoperable til Steve duct-taped a fix.
Brent & Caite, what an annoying pair, with Caite being the annoying one. She is the stupid beauty queen who made a stupid remark that, apparently, a lot of people heard, but I missed, at some beauty pageant. I'm guessing Caite's parents thought they were naming her Kate.
Caite pouted when Brent thought the hunt for the grape cluster Detour choice was the way to go. Nag, nag, nag. The Cowboys, Jet & Cord showed up and quickly found what they needed. This caused Brent & Caite to switch to stacking glasses. Brent was now sure Caite had been right all along, when he saw the brothers succeed and leave. Brent & Caite finished the stacking, Brent started pouring the champagne, and then, oopsie. Collapse.
Back to the vineyard, where soon, Jordan & Jeff showed up. They tried the glass stacking first, for some illogical reason, stated by Jeff, and then switched to the vineyard, upon glass collapse. At the vineyard, Brent & Caite eventually found a grape cluster and made it to the Pitstop.
Jordan & Jeff looked for grapes, with flashlights, well after dark. I didn't get why Phil did not just show up in the vineyard to eliminate them like he did when he eliminated Joe & Heidi last week.
I liked Jordan & Jeff. I did not know til recently they'd been on Big Brother, with Jordan winning. I've not watched Big Brother since that BB All-Star abomination where that nasty Boogie Mike Malin person won, even though he had not been an All-Star and was only on the show because actual All-Star, Will Kirby, would not go on without Boogie, hence the travesty.
I hope next week's tasks are something other than laboriously looking for some needle in a haystack.
