BRIAN! BRIAN!

You know, I was expecting a larger amount of “Brian!” throughout this race, but after their initial discussion about Ericka calling his name out all the time, it tapered off. Bummer. They were pretty fun to watch though…lots of bickering and whining.

Still, Brian wins the “Husband of the Year” award for telling Ericka to take a five minute break during a challenge. That’s some incredible patience right there.

Two things to note right off the bat:

This is the second week in a row that a team has quit. Insanity.

And secondly (this was noted on another Amazing Race recap) but when Meghan and Cheyne left at 1:13pm…it was NOT really 12 hours after they finished the last leg. If you recall, everyone ran to the pit stop along the beach after the water slide, which was clearly in late afternoon sometime.

So…what’s up with that?

This leg was fraught with fun and adventure…kicked off with Sam and Dan coming clean to their competition that they were gay. Gary played up the “revelations” angle by fake announcing that Matt was adopted. Hilarious Gary!

I half expected the poker chicks to come out of the closet too, because there just seems to be a TAD too much “honey” and “babe” between the two.

I liked the challenges on this leg. Finally, stuff was fun and difficult. Counting bells was cool and in an interesting setting, even if it was a bit TOO challenging for Ericka. I knew when she started off with 43 she was in for a long day.

The good ones though were the golf and dancing. While dancing is usually lame, this was ring-a-bell, dance and eat all combined into one. Awesome. Not many chose the dancing, but Flight Time and Big Easy did and it was hilarious.

Poor Maria and Tiffany. Other than fear like Mika had last week, it’s very rare that you find a challenge that is essentially impossible for a team to complete. No matter what they tried, Maria and Tiffany couldn’t ring that bell and couldn’t hit those farmer golf balls far enough. It was physically too much for them to handle.

Which resulted in them going back and forth between challenges and finally earning a visit from Phil to let them off the hook and eliminate the girls from the race.

Contest Standings

Dave continues to lead everyone…not sure if that will change anytime soon!

Dave 62
Adrian 45
Ryann 40
Jina 38
Tracy 38
Josie 36
Mike 36
Nicky 31
Ralph 21
Chris 17