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The Amazing Race Gives Away A Million

This is the final episode of The Amazing Race 12. From 11 teams we are down to three. A Grandson/grandfather team, a Father/Daughter team and a Dating Couple. Who will win? Let's find out!

Ronald & Christina first to arrive last week are first to leave this week. Their clue sends them to Anchoage, Alaska, the final destination city. They must make their way to 6th avenue outfitters when they land where they will pick up some gear for their upcoming journey as well as their next clue. Ronald & Christina, TK & Rachel and Nicolas & Donald all get tickets on the same flight to Anchorage. Ronald & Christina aks for a free upgrade to use the China Air Lounge and get it. They run in there and quickly get online to find out the address of their destination in Alaska. Good thinking!

All of the teams run to the taxis to get to the store and their next clue. The clue tells them to make their way to the waterfront and find Ship Creek Boat Launch. Here they must search for their next clue. Donald & Nicolas in their haste to get the clue, forget they are also supposed to pick up a bag of tools and supplies. Oops.

The clue that is at the boat launch is a DETOUR. Teams must choose between Cut the Cod or Grab the Crab (but Jennifer was eliminated last week!). In Cut the Cod, teams must cut through several 50 lb cod to find a miniature clue hidden in one fish. In Grab the Crab, teams must jump into a fishing boat's crab hold (Deadliest Catch, anyone?) teeming with 500 live crabs to find the one that is marked with TAR colors. Yikes. Ronald & Christina choose Cut the Cod, TK & Rachel choose Grab the Crab (and get quite a few nasty pinches), and Nicoals & Donald read their clue and find their error in not taking the gear from the store. They head back to get it so that they can finish the task. Is this it for them? We shall see.

This crabby/fishy clue tells them to travel 60 miles by taxi to a boat landing where they will take a high-speed ride to 20 mile glacier. Phil tells us that the teams don't know they are going to have to climb the face of the glacier to find their next clue. Dun dun dun! I msut stop to say that Alaska looks just beautiful. I would love to visit there someday. But, I digress, back to the race. Ronald & Christina arrive at the glacier first and start climbing. Christina has some trouble getting up the first big step. TK & Rachel are having major taxi trouble. Their driver does not seem to know where anything is. That can be deadly in this game.

The glacial clue sends the teams on a helicopter ride to Merrill Field, upon landing they will travel by taxi to Goose Lake Park where their next clue is waiting for them. It is a ROADBLOCK. This is probably one of the most complicated roadblocks in memory (well that safe one last time was pretty hard too). OK, here goes, in this roadblock one team member has been given 15 recognizable objects from each leg of the race. They must place on the stage 10 specific items that match two different requirements (confused yet?). 1. Only one item from each of the 10 legs. 2. Three items must be animals or animal by-products. 3. one must be a U-Turn 4. two must be objects either at or brought to a Pit Stop 5. 2 must be items of transportation with wheels, one of which was used as a detour 6. One must be an item of transportation resembling the shape of a stick. Phew. Once the 10 correct items are on the stage, the clue box will open and give them their next clue.

This will definitely give the other teams to catch up. Christina, Rachel and Nicolas take this task on. They spend lots of time trying to get the right set of items. After much frustration, the first one done is Rachel. You go girl! Christina is next with Nicolas trailing behind. They must figure out that their clue is telling them to get to the Captain Cook Statue where they will find their next clue. Tk & Rachel arrive first. This clue tells them to travel into Anchorage on foot and find the statue of the salmon hooker, where their next clue awaits.

The salmon hooker tells them to take a taxi to Girdwood Airport and run to the finish line. GO! GO! GO!. Tk & Rachel are the first to leave the hooker, with Ronald & Christina not far behind. And now, the moment you have all been waiting for......the first team to arrive and win the million dollars is :

TK & RACHEL!!!!! CONGRATS! (eat that Jennifer!)

Great job on a race well run.


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