Amazing Race-The Alps

The Race started out this week with five teams left: Zev and Justin, Keisha and Jen, Kent and Vyxsin, Gary and Mallory, and Flightime and Big Easy, in that order.  They opened up their clues and found out that they had to go to a heliopad and there, they would receive their next clue and their destination.  Kent and Vyxsin kept trying to take a taxi and they were all full.  Gary and Mallory managed to pass them to the heliopad. 

All the teams arrived at the heliopad and they started taking off after they found out that this was the detour.  On this detour it was search or rescue.  For search, the teams had to use a gps device to find a beacon.  At this beacon, they had to dig through several feet of snow to find a dummy and then they had to completely uncover it.  Zev and Justin and Gary and Mallory chose this detour.  All the other teams chose rescue.

In rescue, one team member lowered the other using a pulley into a crevice until they could hook a line to the person "trapped" in the crevice.  Then the team member pulled the other up using the pulley and they pulled up the stuck person.  This sounded really hard, but they all had a much easier time than the teams doing search.  With search, only one team member could really dig and the other just tended to get in the way.

All of the teams except for Zev and Justin got done at about the same time.  They then had to take a train back to down and get their next clue.  Finally Zev and Justin finished, with Justin having snow and ice all over his face.  The next task was a road-block.  In this road-block, one team member had to paint a travelocity gnome mold with colored chocolate, fill it with more chocolate and wait for it to cool.

It was pretty easy, except at one point, someone took Flightime's mold out of the freezer.  It was probably Vyxsin, but there is really no way to know.  Zev said, looks like there are too many cooks in the kitchen.  Big Easy got upset and Kent said, just to the cameras, that he could beat Big Easy up.  I don't think so.  Big Easy could poke Kent and Kent would cry.

Anyway, Vyxsin managed to finish first, but her and Kent made a huge mistake.  They were supposed to make their way on foot to the Pit Stop, but instead they took a handy little electric taxi.  The first team were the Globetrotters, followed by Jen and Keisha.  Then Kent and Vyxsin, but they incurred a thirty minute penalty.  Gary and Mallory showed up fourth and received third place.  It was now down to Zev and Justin and Kent and Vyxsin.  Kent and Vyxsin argued their entire penalty about whose fault it was that they read the clue wrong.  Finally Zev and Justin showed up.  Phil told them they were last, but then he told them about the Goths' penalty.  Zev said, we'll take it.  Kent and Vyxsin were eliminated.  Thank goodness.  Kent has so much negative energy, it was terrible.