From Charleston, to outer space - Leg 3
It's time for the 3rd leg of the Amazing Race 8. We start in Washington DC...
From last week's undocumented 2nd leg of the race that I didn't blog about:
Playing James Bond around the reflecting pool. Kudos to the producers for creativity on that one. I enjoyed it a great deal.
Civil War battle reenactment. Also very historically fun.
Various other entertaining things happened, but it's in the past now.
But back to the present... let's get started on the 3rd leg of the Amazing Race.
Miracle of miracles! We're finally getting on an airplane! I guess sending 8 teams on a plane is cheaper than the 10 from the beginning of the race. Well we seem to have found the airport, but now teams come to the realization that not everyone's going to fit on the same flight. But we seem to have 3 flights that all get to Charleston, SC within about 30 minutes of each other. In AR terms, that's nothing. Everyone's got a chance now!
Detour in South Carolina: Forrest Gump or Muddy Waters. Get on a shrimp boat and dehead 200 lbs of shrimp... or driving trucks through mud without getting stuck. Now, which seems easier, the driving through the mud... so which do I recommend... the shrimp boat. And so far 2 teams have tried the mud run... and one has quit and driving back to do the shrimp. Classic... the Aiello family on their 13th attempt through the mud... fail once again. Yet another family --whose name can't remember because they all run together-- does it on their first attempt. Finally the Aiello family makes it on their 14th attempt. Everyone else seems to have done the Forrest Gump.
Then there's the Paolo family, with the mother who won't shut up. Nag, nag, nag. At first, I thought this was simply creative editing by the producers to make it seem very odd.
On we go to the Charleston visitor center to board a charter bus to a "mystery destination". 4 teams on the first bus, 4 teams on the second bus 2 hours later. And the "mystery destination" becomes... an 8-hour bus trip to Huntsville, Alabama, the "rocket capital of the world". Off to the US Space and Rocket center, but it's the middle of the night, do we expect that the place will be closed? But this time, it doesn't matter.... ROADBLOCK.
This will be a 2-person roadblock, for the first time in Amazing Race history. 2 members from each team will endure a centrifuge until they experience 3.2 G forces. That's it, then they're done. The problem here is that it's first-in, first-out. So this will immediately space the teams out by about 10 or 15 minutes, I'd suppose.
So the next challenge, to find the Saturn V rocket, go into the museum and find a computer screen where you have to *** CORPORATE SPONSOR ALERT *** sign-in to AOL and check your e-mail for a message from Phil telling you your next clue. In this case, we need to go to find the Pathfinder Space Shuttle where Phil in waiting for you on the magic carpet.
"Welcome to Huntsville, Alabama." "Branson Family, you're team number one." And the winners this week receive... *** CORPORATE SPONSOR ALERT *** free gasoline at any BP or ARCO station.... FOR LIFE! That's pretty darn impressive. That prize must be worth tens of thousands of dollars... and who knows.. perhaps a lot more over the years.
That said, now it's the race for last place. The last 4 teams were 2 hours later than the first 4 teams, so they're all clustered together too. Race to the finish now... and unfortunately the last team is the Aiello family... the father with his 3 son-in-laws. Once again, one of the teams that I really enjoyed and thought was one of the better teams... was eliminated.
Well we're getting down to 7 teams now, but I'm starting to wonder if we're even going to leave the US on this race. We seem to be making the cross-country Amazing Race. This actually doesn't bother me too much, because it's interesting seeing what cities they try to come up with. It's just not quite the same as I'm used to.
From last week's undocumented 2nd leg of the race that I didn't blog about:
Playing James Bond around the reflecting pool. Kudos to the producers for creativity on that one. I enjoyed it a great deal.
Civil War battle reenactment. Also very historically fun.
Various other entertaining things happened, but it's in the past now.
But back to the present... let's get started on the 3rd leg of the Amazing Race.
Miracle of miracles! We're finally getting on an airplane! I guess sending 8 teams on a plane is cheaper than the 10 from the beginning of the race. Well we seem to have found the airport, but now teams come to the realization that not everyone's going to fit on the same flight. But we seem to have 3 flights that all get to Charleston, SC within about 30 minutes of each other. In AR terms, that's nothing. Everyone's got a chance now!
Detour in South Carolina: Forrest Gump or Muddy Waters. Get on a shrimp boat and dehead 200 lbs of shrimp... or driving trucks through mud without getting stuck. Now, which seems easier, the driving through the mud... so which do I recommend... the shrimp boat. And so far 2 teams have tried the mud run... and one has quit and driving back to do the shrimp. Classic... the Aiello family on their 13th attempt through the mud... fail once again. Yet another family --whose name can't remember because they all run together-- does it on their first attempt. Finally the Aiello family makes it on their 14th attempt. Everyone else seems to have done the Forrest Gump.
Then there's the Paolo family, with the mother who won't shut up. Nag, nag, nag. At first, I thought this was simply creative editing by the producers to make it seem very odd.
On we go to the Charleston visitor center to board a charter bus to a "mystery destination". 4 teams on the first bus, 4 teams on the second bus 2 hours later. And the "mystery destination" becomes... an 8-hour bus trip to Huntsville, Alabama, the "rocket capital of the world". Off to the US Space and Rocket center, but it's the middle of the night, do we expect that the place will be closed? But this time, it doesn't matter.... ROADBLOCK.
This will be a 2-person roadblock, for the first time in Amazing Race history. 2 members from each team will endure a centrifuge until they experience 3.2 G forces. That's it, then they're done. The problem here is that it's first-in, first-out. So this will immediately space the teams out by about 10 or 15 minutes, I'd suppose.
So the next challenge, to find the Saturn V rocket, go into the museum and find a computer screen where you have to *** CORPORATE SPONSOR ALERT *** sign-in to AOL and check your e-mail for a message from Phil telling you your next clue. In this case, we need to go to find the Pathfinder Space Shuttle where Phil in waiting for you on the magic carpet.
"Welcome to Huntsville, Alabama." "Branson Family, you're team number one." And the winners this week receive... *** CORPORATE SPONSOR ALERT *** free gasoline at any BP or ARCO station.... FOR LIFE! That's pretty darn impressive. That prize must be worth tens of thousands of dollars... and who knows.. perhaps a lot more over the years.
That said, now it's the race for last place. The last 4 teams were 2 hours later than the first 4 teams, so they're all clustered together too. Race to the finish now... and unfortunately the last team is the Aiello family... the father with his 3 son-in-laws. Once again, one of the teams that I really enjoyed and thought was one of the better teams... was eliminated.
Well we're getting down to 7 teams now, but I'm starting to wonder if we're even going to leave the US on this race. We seem to be making the cross-country Amazing Race. This actually doesn't bother me too much, because it's interesting seeing what cities they try to come up with. It's just not quite the same as I'm used to.
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