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This week’s The Amazing Race continues in Chile. All teams are asked to make their way back to Santiago from Valparaiso, then they must take a bus to Puerto Varas. Though Jeff and Jordan are given a head start, they only to find out the bus station opens at 5 AM. So, everyone seem to be on the same start line again.

While waiting, Carol and Brandy decide to form an alliance with another team, and they believe Joe and Heidi is the team that have what it takes to succeed. And all four of them agree. It turns out to be a good alliance, at least for this week. Joe and Heiti save a spot for Carol and Brandy when they are waiting in line (which pisses the detectives’ team very much), and there are only four tickets available for the first bus.

Most of the other teams have to take another bus that is several hours later, while three teams take advantage of a quicker route that involves a stop in Temuco. The three teams are Jet and Cord, Jeff and Jordan, and Brent and Caite. The last team to leave the bus station is Shannon and Jody, but not too far behind the other teams.

However, it turns out that Jet and Cord are the only team to take advantage of the short cut. Jeff and Jordan and Brent and Caite have an earlier but than the cowboys, but their bus leaves at a bus station that’s 10 minutes from where they were dropped off. Jet and Cord learn about this fact while trying to get on the earlier bus, but they decide to keep their mouths shut, and it pays off big time.

The cowboys are the first team to arrive at the Petrohue Hotel, they then have to drive themselves to the detour. The stick shift feature of the cars that drive makes a few teams frustrate a bit. Dan and Jordan struggle with the vehicle and their sense of direction. Louie and Michael find themselves lost along the way as well.

When teams reach their destination, they then have to take a boat to an island surrounded by volcanoes, and their detour. The detour is either to adorn a llama or to fly like a condor. In adorn a llama, teams have to put a scarf around the neck of a llama and a blanket over it’s back side. In fly like a condor, teams must dress in a tandem bird suit and run off a pier to reach a buoy that holds their next clue.

It’s no surprise what the cowboys would choose, adorn the llama. Jet completes the task with relative ease and the cowboy team continue the race way ahead of the others. Caite and Brent and Jordan and Jeff are the only two teams to fly like a condor, as it’s a bit cold out there.

The next clue is  ”Get yourselves to higher ground,” which sends teams to Bella Vista where they find the clue for this week’s Roadblock. “It’s time to make the kuchen.” The word kuchen confuses teams a bit at first, but they soon find out it’s German for cake. The task has each team gathering the ingredients that comprise the kuchen. In other words, this is another task designed for the cowboys.

Jet has no problem milking the cow, raiding the chicken coop for 13 eggs, carrying the bag of flour, bowl of sugar and stick of butter back to the kitchen to get their final clue. As they leave the farm, the other teams just arrive.

Michael, Jordan and Monique struggle with the milking part, but they all get through without wasting much time.

The first team to arrive at the pit stop is Jet and Cord. Next up are Joe and Heidi and Carol and Brandy, who have proved their ideas of teaming up to be a nice one. Caite and Brent moves up to number four, while Monique and Shawne pull into fifth. Coming in sixth are Jeff and Jordan, Steve and Allie make their way to seventh. Dan and Jordan, wasting some time in asking for direction, are number eighth.

Louie and Michael, though lost in their way to the Roadblock, manage to outpace Jody in the task of milking, and ultimately pull ahead of Shannon and Jody.

The last team to arrive is Shannon and Jody, the grandmother and granddaughter team that struggle most in their way, who are eliminated.

This week, teams are still in Dubai, seems the producers wanted the world to have a more thorough look at it. First stop, the Dubai Creek Yacht Club, where a Roadblock awaits. Meghan and Cheyne are the first to depart, more than one hour prior to the second team. Considering that they did the Fast Forward last leg, it’s not much time that they’ve saved. For this task, one member has to row to an anchored yacht offshore to ge a watch, then row back and open the suitcase (they are asked to bring) with a combination based on the watch.

The watch is stuck at 8:35, and almost everyone figure the answer out right away, except Big Easy. Even Mika and Canaan pass the Globetrotters, though they leave the start nearly one hour after them.

The clue inside the briefcase tells them to go to the Abra station, to take water taxis to the next stop they choose. Yes, a detour: Gold or Glass. In Gold, teams have to weigh in $500000 worth of gold, while the price of gold is changing every few minutes. In glass, teams have to assemble 12 hookahs. To me, the hookahs task seems to be more complicated.

And I’m right, it takes each team about 1-2 hours to finish them all. Brian and Ericka try the Gold task first, but soon switch to Glass because they couldn’t outpace the speed of the price change. On the other hand, Maria and Tiffany, with the calculator they borrow from Sam and Dan, finish the task (together with Sam and Dan) with only two tries, gaining them quite a lot of time ahead of the other teams.

Meanwhile, Meghan and Cheyne assemble their hookahs without much trouble, but everyone else’s been struggling a lot. Eventually, Brian and Ericka, followed by Gary and Matt, finish them. The Globetrotters then decide to switch, leaving Mika and Canaan striving under the hot sun.

Next stop, the Atlantis Resort, where they must each slide down the Leap of Faith, a six-story water slide that’s almost 90 degree. Meghan and Cheyne are first to arrive, followed by Maria and Tiffany, Sam and Dan, Brian and Ericka and Gary and Matt. Then come Mika and Canaan.

We are all very well-known of Mika’s fear of heights, but you’d never think that it would cost them one million dollars. She’s standing at the top of the slide refusing to do the task, even when Canaan tries to threat her. The Globetrotters arrive not long after, and they are giving a two-minute warning. But after Flight Time and Big Easy trash talk to her, Mika lets it expire. (Seriously, if I am the Globetrotters’ boss, I’d fire them for that. Where the hell’s your sportsmanship? NBA doesn’t need such piece of crap to perform for them!) Knowing that they are the last team, Canaan slide down alone. And Mika gives up the task at last.

The teams finished as follows:

1st: Meghan and Cheyne

2nd: Maria and Tiffany

3rd: Sam and Dan

4th: Brian and Ericka

5th: Gary and Matt

6th: Flight Time and Big Easy

7th: Mika and Canaan

Mika and Canaan are eliminated.