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The Amazing Race in Lithuania

I must say that I thought this week was fairly uneventful. Ah, well, they can't all be gems.

Here we go....the first clue of this leg sends the teams racing off to the airport trying to find flights to Vilnius, Lithuania. Once here they must get in a marked car and drive themselves to Saint Anne's church, where they will find their next clue. They are told that they can only purchase tickets through a ticket agent, and are sad to see that the agents are not yet open when they arrive at the airport. Some head off to the internet to do research. (yawn)

Ronald & Christina are the first to leave the mob at the internet place in search of an open ticket agent. They actually find one that is open and book a flight to Paris then to Lithuania. The kindest thing I can say about that, is I feel for Christina. Everyone flies into Paris, but there are multiple connecting flights to Vilnius. They go via Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Prague. Now, Nicolas is a pilot, right? Then why is he so brainless when it comes to air travel? He claims that his trouble came from a language barrier, but I think it is his lack of patience. Hm. Shana & Jennifer are bickering over the previous U-turn and trying to be secretive around the other teams. Now, the question here is, are they paranoid because they are have an impending sense of karma-doom? Or are they paranoid because it is part of their nature? You be the judge.

Teams on the Amsterdam flight are Azaria & Hendekea and Nathan & Jennifer. Flying through Frankfurt are Kynt & Vyxsin, TK & Rachel and Nicolas & Douglas. Flying through Prague are Ron & Christina. The first flight to arrive is the one from Amsterdam. Frankfurt comes in next, and Prague last. Teams look for their cars and maps to be able to find the church. I love it when people drive without checking (much less knowing) where they are going. Ron & Christina hire a taxi to preceed them, but Nicoals & Douglas get there first to find a ROADBLOCK that asks " Who is a good listener?"

In this roadblock , one team member must become a Lithuanian messenger. They choose a woman working out doors, she hands them a package and tells them where to take it. Travelling on foot, they must find and deliver their package to the person they were told. When found, this person will give them another package that must be delivered to one of four destinations. Upon reaching the destination, they will get their next clue.

Remember how I said Nicolas & Donald got there first? Well, they left last.Nicolas was having difficulty finding the second destination. To be fair, so does Hendekea. It seems that no one knows where their place is. Kynt & Vyxsin were the first to get the next clue. They must drive themselves to the Lithuanian museum in Rumsiskes. It is an outdoor lithographic museum. They will find their next clue here.

The museum clue is gnomes, gnomes everywhere. According to Phil, Lithuania is the land of gnomes. Here is the blatant sponsor advertisement. Teams must scour this village to find the roaming Travelocity gnome and bring him along for the rest of the leg to the Pit Stop. On the upside, Vyxsin says it is easier to transport the gnome than the live chicken they had in Africa. The gnome clue leads them to a DETOUR.

In this Detour, teams must choose between two Lithuanian activities played out during a mid summer festival. The choices: Count Down or Step Up. In Count Down, teams must find a huge section of picket fence, count each slat and report it to a villager. If they are correct, they will get their next clue. In Step Up, teams must travel along a relatively short distance while on stilts. If they fall off, they must start over again at the beginnig. The most fun of this was watching the villagers all dressed in costumes trying to make the counters miscount. Well, maybe watching people fall off the stils too. I dunno I am conflicted.

Counting Down: Jennifer & Nathan (who switch and step up), Azaria & Hendekea, Nicolas & Donald and Shana & Jennifer. Stepping Up: Kynt & Vyxsin (who gave up and ended up counting), TK & Rachel (who should seriously consider a pant fabric OTHER than spandex), Ronald & Christina. I need to take a moment to let you all know that Jennifer seriously needs to chill out. I think she still isn't over Arazria & Hendekea beating them on the precious leg. Breathe girl.

TK & Rachel are the first to complete the task and get the next clue which tells them to travel on foot to the next Pit Stop the Aukstaitija Windmill. It is a working mill from the 1800's. Teams arrive at the Pit Stop in the following order:

1. TK & Rachel who win a trip from (guess who) Travelocity to Japan

2. Kynt & Vyxsin

3. Ronald & Christina

4. Nathan & Jennifer

5. Nicolas & Donald

6. Shana & Jennifer who are eliminated from the race (thank you)

All in all, I thought it was a pretty ho-hum leg. The challenges seemed easy, granted, I didn't have to DO any of them, but I guess I expected more. Maybe next week will be better.

Posted by Wendy on December 2, 2007 10:34 PM
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THIS WEEK was uneventful??? How about LAST WEEK?! They didn't even have a location change last time! At least this week we saw another country and more about the relationships about the people on the show.

I hope Nathan and Jennifer are the next to go. She is almost as bad as Shana.

-- Posted by: Joanne at December 3, 2007 02:24 AM

i so LOVE Kynt and Vyxsin, truly the only reason to watch an otherwise BORING season

-- Posted by: Patricia at December 3, 2007 02:31 AM

@ Joanne,

You are right last week was not full of excitement. I guess it is more apparent when we watch two uneventful weeks.

Nathan & Jennifer are definitely on my "need to go" list. Although, it looks as if next week there will be even more fighting between the two of them.

Wendy

@ Patricia -- I love Kynt & Vyxsin too. They are definitely the team I am rooting for to win the race.

-- Posted by: wendy at December 4, 2007 02:31 PM

Thanks Travelocity for taking Amazing Race through Lithuania. Of course, I am Lithuanian and have never traveled there but seeing it makes me want to visit the country of my heritage.

-- Posted by: Irene at December 27, 2007 05:37 PM