http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race/
Last night was the first of the new show. I tried to watch it but kept dozing off and finally fell asleep until it was over! Wasn’t the show, it was me. Not enough sleep the night before. So, I’m not sure who’s on nor what happened! There seemed to be some assertive (bossy) people involved.
Maybe next week I won’t be sleepy!
If you missed The Amazing Race, you missed a rather funny one! I doubt the participants were greatly amused but I was!
There was some drama at the airport trying to get tickets to the next leg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Not enough tickets for the airplane and one ticket agent seemed to be faster on the keyboard! Nicholas (grandson and grandpa) tried to rush their agent which caused her to call him rude and she left the area! Ron (father and daughter) chose that time to go into a rant with his daughter trying to calm him down! Eventually, they all made it to Amsterdam. The Goth couple thought they would fit right in because Amsterdam is into some weirdo stuff.
The first detour was Hoist It, where they had to hoist several pieces of furniture up to an apt, or Hunt It, where they had to walk down the street and look thru thousands of bikes to find 2 that were color coded to match a ticket each team had. Then ride 5 miles for their next clue. Some of the women were better at hoisting the furniture than the men. The tricky part was getting a good knot in the rope so the furniture wouldn’t slip out!
Ron went into another rant with his daughter and caused her to tear up. She told him he was too rough with her and he promised to change. That may be harder than he thinks!
The Roadblock involved a regional sport called ditch vaulting. It required a person to take a wooden pole and vault over a muddy ditch to get a clue on the other side and vault back. Then ride a cargo bike called a bakfiets through the countryside in search of Durgendam Yacht Club, the next Pit Stop.
Meanwhile at the ditch vaulting, Shana (blondes) made it across in one try but on the way back, she landed right in the ditch completely covered in mud! I don’t know which one of the blondes remarked how she missed her facial and manicure but if it was Shana she got a mud pack! She seemed to take it in stride and go on. Not sure I could’ve!
Nicolas decided to let his 88 yr old grandpa do the vault. He seemed to want to do it. After several muddy attempts, Don took off all his clothes except his underwear to “free” himself up! He said on the mat that he had even done it sans underwear! He didn’t mention how many people were blinded by that. HA
After they got on their cargo bikes, one guy told his partner she smelled like poop from the mud and she agreed! Ron told his daughter she needed to lose weight! She does not! He’s cruisin’ for a bruisin’!
Lorena and Jason were first and both won special bikes! Kate and Pat were last and were eliminated.
I hope they all got hot baths after all that smelly mud! Yuk!
The Amazin Race was off and running last night! The football game messed up the schedule so I had to keep checking to catch the start. Lots of unusual names and I’m not really pulling for anyone in particular, yet. I did sort of like the grandson and grandpa duo, but older folks seem to have a hard time on this show with some of the more physical things. You can get a gander at who’s involved here:
http://alpha.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race12/recaps/ep1201/hhis :
The first country they chased each other to was Ireland. Looked wet and windy! The first roadblock was riding a bike on a cable, high above the ocean, with their partners eight feet below connected by a pole! They didn’t say just how the bikes stayed on the cable and most of the contestants said it was fun but it looked scary as all get out to me! Next they had to pick a donkey, fill its baskets with peat and get it to move–which was harder than it sounds! One or two couples had to push their donkey to help it along!
Azaria and Hendekea hit the mat first and won a trip to Canada. Aria and Staella were last and were eliminated.
The Birmingham Museum of Art has opened a Pompeii exhibition that will be here until January ‘08.
http://www.pompeiibirmingham.com/
I am very much looking forward to seeing it, at least once. We were lucky enough to actually go to Pompeii while in Rome on a company sponsored trip in 1989. It was so interesting to see what they had uncovered! Also surreal when you’re told the ruts in the cobblestones are from chariots, frescos on walls have lasted longer than you can wrap your mind around and just trying to imagine the streets and houses full of people of that time! My regret is that I didn’t keep a diary because there are holes in my memory now! I did take pictures but not nearly enough! The ones I posted are of the work area where the finds are being readied for display. The first is a human figure, the second has a dog in a glass case that had been chained, another human figure and I’m not sure what’s in the other glass case, and the third picture is a sacrificial altar which involved humans as well as animals. I’m hoping the trip to the museum will revive my memory about some things. It’s hard to concentrate on what the tour guide is saying when you’re trying to take in the surroundings!
If you use the sidebar at the museum’s site you will find links with various pictures and interesting facts about Pompeii. And, if you search for Pompeii pictures there are also lots of links.
I might do a post about our trip to Rome. It was a couple of months after the Lockerbie explosion, which was on my mind BIG TIME!
