Amazing Race-Indonesia

Leg 2 of the Amazing Race started off with a video montage of every team reading their clue and discovering that it was a double elimination leg, which means that the last two teams to arrive at the pit stop would be eliminated.

All teams arrived at the airport in Taipei and got on the same flight to Jakarta.  They then had to take a train from Jakarta to Jojakarta.  Justin and Jennifer, the siblings, had a breakdown while waiting for the train.  I just can't see them making it if they can't get beyond their distrust of each other.

All teams then made their way to this giant cave.  The first team to arrive were Ma and Pa(Bill and Cathi).  They had a huge head start on the other teams, but they had to do their speed bump.  Which was unknotting a bundle of rope.  I appreciated the Christmas Vacation references from Bill.

Then one person from each team spelunked into the cave.  No one was afraid of heights and no one was claustrophobic.  I think that this was a first in Race history where on a potentially frightening detour, no one was frightened.

Then they had to choose their Road Block.  It was either parking mopeds or dancing in the streets for tips.  About half chose each.  Neither were particularly hard but there was also little advantage other than simply arriving first. 

After completing the detour, they proceeded to an orphanage and gave their earnings from the detour.  However, there was an additional caveat, written on a sign at the orphanage, that said that each team must give all their money to the orphanage.  Only three teams read this clue correctly and those three teams became the first three checked in teams, although they were really teams 4, team something, and team 10.  These were the snowboarders, the showgirls, and the father-son team.  All the other teams arrived at the pit stop and were forced to return to the orphanage.

The last two teams to arrive were the flight attendants and the Survivor winners.  They were eliminated, but the flight attendants were brave and cool, even in the face of defeat.