The Amazing Race 17 : Episode5 - Hanging by a thread

I've just finished watching another episode of the amazing 'The Amazing Race 17'. This season, for me, is really good! I have to admit that I stopped watching this show a couple of seasons ago ( cuz I just couldn't stand a lot of the teams and I think they were not quite good casts ) but this season make up to me. I love the teams. I mean like Brook and Claire, Gary and Mallory, Katie and Rachel and especially 'team Jumba!!!' So far, it's so fun to watch and after every episode I want to watch more.

But tbh, I feel this episode is so unfair for some of the teams. The teams that did not so well last leg had a huge disadvantage this leg. At first I thought it's gonna be a non-elimination round because this disadvantage. If they had to catch a plane or go to other place that is far, it would close this huge gap of time between the teams and they would have a clean slate.

Well, let's get on what had happened this episode.

First, Nat and Kat arrived first last leg and this episode's first clue box which located up on such a beautiful mountain ( ugh..now I wanna go there ) and on the way up there Nat freaked out because she's afraid of height. There was a FAST FORWARD! and Nat-Kat chose to do it. In the confessional, Kat told us she is a vegetarian but the fast forward task is to eat a roasted sheep's head (yuck :/ ). Thumps up for Kat for doing this. They succeeded and moved on to the Pit Stop at Ankenes Marina.

While other teams still had to battle it out without Fast Forward, Vicki and Nick went for a 'taken FF'. The fact that they already knew people were gonna be there at FF already and they said it's not hard, they still chos to go for it and..well, stunned by the sign ' Fast Forward taken'. What I mean by 'stunned' is they didn't know what it meant by 'taken'. LOL so funny [the way the show portrayed them].

At the road block, a team member had to be hanging on a rope from a bridge. Kevin chose to do it and his father even joked about himself not doing it because he didn't have a gut! lol [I sooo like this team]

For Detour, the teams had to choose between Bike or Boat. Kevin/Michael, Brook/Claire, Chad/Steph and the volleyball girls chose to do Boat while Gary/Mallory, Jill/Thomas and Nick/Vicki chose to do Bike.

Brook and Claire collected their 7th kiss in the race. ;)

The teams finished at the Pit Stop like this...
1.    Nat & Kat
2.    Gary & Mallory
3.    Jill & Thomas
4.    Michael & Kevin
5.    Brook & Claire
6.    Nick & Vicki
7.    Chad & Stephanie
8.    Katie & Rachel - Eliminated

It's so sad to see Katie and Rachel out like this--it's so not fair! I had a hope for them until they chose to do Boat and especially saw them going in opposite directions with Chad/Steph on the boats, I knew they were last for sure.

I can't wait for the next episode!!!! *Spoiler alert* Russia bb Russia.