The Amazing Race: There's A Party In My Pants

This week's The Amazing Race was a crazy journey! Planes weren't cooperating for some teams and attitudes for others.

TK & Rachel, the first team to arrive at the last pit stop in Vilnius, were the first to leave at 1:00 AM. Teams have to now fly 900 miles to Dubrovnik, Croatia. After landing, they must travel to the base of the Fort of St. Lawrence to receive their next clue. Kynt & Vyxsin took off one minute after TK & Rachel and Ron & Christina left 14 minutes later. Azaria & Hendekea left at 1:20 AM, Nathan & Jennifer left at 1:29 AM, and Nicolas & Donald left at 1:42 AM. Each of the teams were given $109 for this leg of the race.

TK & Rachel and Kynt & Vyxsin were the first ones at the airport and hopped online. They found a flight through the Czech airlines but their ticket window didn't open until 4:30 AM. Meanwhile, Ron & Christina stopped at a hotel on their way to the airport and made reservations on a Polish flight. While Azaria & Hendekea were on their way to the airport, she mentioned that she knew a couple of Croatian phrases that might help get them by. One of those was the English translation of, "There's a party in my pants." That might not help you in the way you'd like it to Hendekea.

At the airport, teams were waiting for the various offices to open so that they could buy their tickets. Kynt & Vyxsin noticed though that a travel agent's office had opened so they went over there to check out the available flights. Christina tried to help out Azaria & Hendekea by giving them the scoop on the Polish flight they'd already made reservations for. The other teams were waiting for the Croatian airlines office to open but several of them were getting antsy seeing Kynt & Vyxsin already getting their tickets. Not wanting to miss out on a better flight, Nathan & Jennifer left their spot in line to go check it out. Then Ron & Christina came over (he started arguing with Kynt). Azaria & Hendekea's reservations didn't go through and they started fighting. Nate & Jen change their minds and go to the back of the line they'd previously been in. Let's just say there was a lot of jockeying around in the airport with everybody trying to get tickets to these flights.

After the first flight (via Prague) left with TK & Rachel and Nicolas & Donald, Hendekea & Azaria find out that the tickets they'd finally acquired were in business class. No business class allowed -- only economy. They went back to their agent to get the tickets corrected only to find out that there were no more seats left on the flight they needed. They do manage to get a flight via Frankfurt and in the process, find out that the Prague flight would be arriving late. Good for them!

When the Prague flight landed, poor TK & Rachel and Nicolas & Donald were left with no connecting flight to board because their plane had arrived so late. Both of the teams had to get tickets to Dubrovnik on separate flights. Meanwhile, the second plane landed with Nathan & Jennifer (1st), Kynt & Vyxsin (2nd), and Ron & Christina (3rd). Ron & Christina find the clue box first and it's a roadblock. Who has a builder's eye? In this task, they would have to search through a pile of 150 stones for just one of eight that would fit in a hole in the wall. Ronald finished it really quickly and they received their next clue. They must now make their way to the roof and tandem zip line down to Fort Bokar for their next clue.

While Nathan & Jen and Kynt & Vyxsin were still looking for the clue box, Ron & Christina took off down the zip line for their wild ride. The clue this time was a Detour: Short and Long or Long and Short. In S&L, teams would have to repel down to the base of the fort and then scale a tower wall on a rope ladder before having to find their next clue in the plaza. In L&S, teams would have to tandem zip line down to the water below, swim to a floating platform and pick out a small fishing boat, row the boat around the city walls to the harbor, and then find their clue in the same plaza.

Ron & Christina chose to do L&S while Nathan & Jen and Kynt & Vyxsin finally found the clue box and began working on the roadblock. Nathan finished first for his team right ahead of Kynt for his. Nathan & Jen decide to do L&S while Kynt & Vyxsin decided to do S&L (they were the only team to do so btw). Almost immediately after beginning to row, Nathan & Jen started fighting. She hates him, she never wants to be with him again, blah blah blah. It was actually pretty hard to listen to because they were so upset at each other.

Ron & Christina landed in the harbor with Nathan & Jennifer right on their heels. Nathan & Jennifer find the clue box first and it's for the next pit stop. (Don't forget, the other planes still have not landed.) Teams would have to travel four miles by taxi to the edge of the city and find Stone Cross Overlook. That would be the pit stop for this leg of the race. Kynt & Vyxsin, meanwhile, finished up their Detour are looking for the next clue box in the plaza. The first taxi driver Nathan & Jennifer were able to flag down didn't want to take them because they were too wet. This pushed Jennifer over the edge again and she started having a breakdown in the middle of the street. All of this while, Ron & Christina snagged a taxi and were on their way to the pit stop. Finally, TK & Rachel's plane arrived at 2:39 PM and they were in 4th place. Finally, Nathan & Jen find a ride up to the Overlook -- but it's not a taxi. They asked some guy in a car to take them and he agreed.

Ron & Christina were the first team to reach Phil at the pit stop and were super excited! Besides his arguing with Kynt earlier, they actually did a fairly decent job of working together on this leg of the race. As winners, they each won a 12 1/2 foot catamaran. Not bad I guess. Nathan & Jennifer were the 2nd team to reach Phil and didn't look happy. They looked less happy when Phil told them that they'd have to go back and take a legal form of transportation up to the pit stop. I almost died laughing when Phil told them that! On their taxi ride back down, Jen began her crying again. She doesn't want to be there anymore! Stop already girl.

Kynt & Vyxsin were the official 2nd team to meet Phil and they were excited. I must mention this before I forget: as the teams were climbing the steps to get to Phil, there were guards posted that would fire off a gun or cannon that would scare the living mess out of the teams. I found it hilarious when each team screamed with fright as it happened. Let's get back to the race now. Nathan & Jennifer got their taxi and became the 3rd team on the mat. They're not happy with each other and it definitely showed.

Nicolas & Donald's plane finally landed in Dubrovnik and they're in 5th place. Azaria & Hendekea's plane then landed and they're in last place. Each of those teams were neck and neck going through the roadblock and trying to outpace the other. Meanwhile, TK & Rachel were the 4th team to see Phil. It's a race between Nicolas & Donald and Azaria & Hendekea now.

In the end though, it was Nicolas & Donald that would continue on in the race. Hendekea & Azaria were the 6th team eliminated. She said they beat themselves in this leg of the race (and they did). Of course, they didn't get any help from the ticket agent that gave them business class tickets instead of economy. Azaria said he was proud of her and that this experience has brought them closer together.

In two weeks (the Survivor finale will be on this Sunday), Donald is stunned by a Fast Forward (getting a tattoo????) and Kynt loses faith in Vyxsin (yells at her to stop the car because she's going too fast). It looks to be another crazy episode coming up. If the Fast Forward involves a tattoo, I sure hope somebody does it! It would be as great as when Joyce shaved her head. You remember that don't you? So what did you think about this week's episode?