Amazing Race All Stars 3/25/07

There sure was a lot of confusion and frustration at the airport for all the teams attempting to get a ticket to the African nation of Tanzania! Charna and Mirna went to a different ticket counter and made plans to go to Johannesburg and try to get there that way. Other teams think that's risky and decide to stay at the airport overnight. Teri wanted to go back to the hotel but Ian insists they need to stay at the airport. Eric and Danielle get on a plane only to be taken off, because the seats belong to someone else. If someone else got on, it wasn't shown. Danielle is very upset.

The cousins have a prayer with a ticket agent in Johannesburg to get on the plane to Dar Es Essalaam and it works! They wonder where the other teams are after they land and go to the ferry terminal to get the first ticket to ride a dhow (boat) to the island of Zanzibar. Their trip is postphoned by a storm and the next day, Danny and Oswald are there to join them in their sailing trip. Charna gets sick and spends some time looking at the water!

Meanwhile, back at the airport, Ian and Teri and Bill and Joe are still trying to get on a flight! After 2 nights in the airport, they're finally on their way!

Back on the island, the tasks are Solve It or Schlep It. Solve it involves putting a 62 piece wooden puzzle together. The puzzle recreates an image from a style of local artwork, called Tinga Tinga. In Schlep It, teams had to go to Kjangwani Lumber Yard, put a 50# log on a cart and take it to a shipyard a mile away. The logs are used to make the native boats, dhows.

The cousins and best friends both decide to do the puzzle and the best friends finish first, but on their way to the next destination decide to stop and buy fruit. This gives the cousins a chance to get ahead. They are first to arrive at the tiny village of Kikungwi, home to the Massai, on the island of Zanzibar. The Roadblock here is to use a Kungu, a woooden weapon used by the Massai, to hit a clay mask 65' away. Mirna was the first to hit the target. What luck! The Pit Stop was Old Fort, an 18th century fortress.

The cousins were the first to hit the mat and when Phil told them they'd each won a catamaran they were silent and then asked him what it was! He told them it was a boat! Charna may want to sell hers!

Uchenna and Joyce had no problem with the time penalty from last week and safely came in third. He got to jump with the Massai and was pretty happy about that, too!

Beauty queens did the log task and were fourth.

Teri and Ian and Joe and Bill were neck and neck from the time they did the puzzle. Teri and Ian didn't realize right away that the puzzle pieces were painted on both sides and finished alittle behind. This proved to be their downfall, as they were last and eliminated.

I wonder what Rob and Amber were doing? ;)