TAR26, Recap Leg 9, 4/24/15

Welcome to Leg 9! Last time, on We Are Africa, the One and Only Africa!, teams continued to race through Namibia.  Hayley played with kids, which kept her distracted from Blair.  Laura and Tyler and Matt and Ashley battled for first place, which led to Laura and Tyler winning.  A double U-Turn affected Jelani and Jenny, even with the Express Pass, and Aly and Steve, which led to their elimination.   Who will be eliminated. . . next? (click for more)

Arrival at the pit stop last episode:

1st – Laura/Tyler, Team Clueless YDC, #TeamSoCal

2nd – Matt/Ashley, Team Best Friend YDC, #The Hairstylists

3rd – Hayley/Blair, Team Mismatched YDC, #RxForLove

4th – Jelani/Jenny, Team Intelligent YDC, #TheLegalTeam

5th – Mike/Rochelle, Team Smalltown Sweetheart YDC, #TruckStopLove

Goanikontes Oasis, Moon Valley Landscape, Erongo Region, Namibia

No one talks about Date Night, because we don’t care about it anymore.  But there is Eat Sleep Mingle, including the discovery of tent sleeping once again, and a meal discussing the use of the U-Turn against Jelani and Jenny.  Jelani understands the gameplay.  Jenny is just bitter.

12:19 PM Laura/Tyler (1st)

Clue: Fly 5000 miles back to Europe and Amsterdam, Netherlands!  Once there, take a taxi to Jagershuis to get your next clue.

12:20 PM Matt/Ashley (2nd) 

12:34 PM Hayley/Blair (3rd) – who are working on their communication.  Sure.

And you’d think at this late in the game we’d care about time chyrons.  But no.

Jelani/Jenny (4th)

Mike/Rochelle (5th)

Teams arrive at Hosea Kutako International Airport in the following order:

1- Laura/Tyler

2- Matt/Ashley  

3- Hayley/Blair  

4- Jelani/Jenny 

5- Mike/Rochelle

Teams find out that everyone is on the same KLM flight to Amsterdam through Johannesburg.  So, teams make their way to Amsterdam and arrive in the following order:

1- Jelani/Jenny

2- Laura/Tyler

3- Matt/Ashley   

4- Mike/Rochelle

5- Hayley/Blair

Teams now get their taxis to take them to Jagershuis.  They arrive in the following order:  

1- Jelani/Jenny – who pull the Date Night.

2- Laura/Tyler

3- Matt/Ashley   

4- Mike/Rochelle

5- Hayley/Blair

And teams get the seventh Roadblock clue.

ROADBLOCK:

Who’s got a nice set of klompen?

In this roadblock, roadblockers must dress in costume and examine a wooden shoe and then look through a room full of wooden shoes to find its exact match.  Once correct, roadblockers will get their clue from the cobbler.

The following teammates take the Roadblock:

1- Jenny

2- Tyler

3- Matt – who gets horribly frustrated.

4- Rochelle

5- Blair

After much sole searching, teams finish the Roadblock in the following order:

1- Jelani/Jenny

2- Laura/Tyler

3- Hayley/Blair   

4- Mike/Rochelle

5- Matt/Ashley

Teams are now instructed to ride bicycles along the Amstel River, cross it using a river ferry, and continue to central Amsterdam to find the Munttoren.  Teams cycle, cross the river and arrive at the tower in the following order:

1- Laura/Tyler

2- Jelani/Jenny

3- Hayley/Blair  - (Auburnium0513: “Oh My God, I want to slap Haley silly and fix her damn bike helmet. What is it with TAR contestants not knowing how to wear bike helmets?”)

4- Mike/Rochelle 

5- Matt/Ashley

And we get the Detour Clue.

DETOUR:

Soak OR Shuffle

*Soak: Teams get dressed in their swimsuits and guide a hot tub boat along the Amstel River.  Along the way, they must find three clues that form a rebus that solves to “Ice Skating Rink”.  Once they tell the vendor the correct solution, he will hand them their next clue.

*Shuffle: Teams travel to a building to play sjoelen, the Dutch version of shuffleboard.  In order to get the clue, teams must score 51 points by sliding 20 disks along the board.  Once the score is reached, teams get their next clue.

1- Laura/Tyler choose Soak

2- Jelani/Jenny choose Soak – and Jenny gets in with her robe on.  (Auburnium0513: “You're going to be mad when you get out of the hot tub and have nothing dry to put on!”)  They can’t figure out the “I I I I I” clue, which is I’s or Ice, and decide to ask around for help.

3- Mike/Rochelle choose Shuffle

4- Hayley/Blair choose Soak – after Blair takes a wrong turn looking for the hot tubs and gets admonished by Hayley.

5- Matt/Ashley choose Shuffle

Teams complete the detour in the following order:

1- Laura/Tyler

2- Hayley/Blair

3- Mike/Rochelle  

4- Jelani/Jenny 

5- Matt/Ashley

Teams are now instructed to make their way on their bikes to the Rijksmuseum on the Museumplein and find the Museumplein Ice Skating Rink, the PIT STOP of the ninth leg of this racearoundtheworld.   The last team to arrive may be eliminated!

1- Laura/Tyler – who win a trip for two to South Korea.

2- Hayley/Blair  

3- Jelani/Jenny

4- Mike/Rochelle

5- Matt/Ashley

And Matt and Ashley are the last team to arrive. . . but this is the third of the three predetermined nonelimination legs, and they are still in the race!  There will be a Speed Bump on the next leg they will have to complete.

ORDER NOW:

1st – Laura/Tyler  

2nd – Hayley/Blair

3rd – Jelani/Jenny

4th – Mike/Rochelle  

5th – Matt/Ashley

Next episode: Peru!  Teams work on a sugar cane farm.  And potatoes are falling at their feet!  Until next time!