Tonight’s episode of the Amazing Race kicks off with free cellphones and a trip to a mystery location in Kuwait City. All teams mustfind a travel agency, get plane tickets to Kuwait City, fly to Kuwait, hop in a marked car and try to located the mystery location. All each team is given to find the mystery location is a picture on the new camera phone they just received.

Peter and Sarah are the first to get to a travel agency and notice that the agency just happens to have some computers for use. They hop on one of the computers and, through a bit of searching, find out that the mystery location is the Kuwait Towers in Kuwait City.

Though each team started this leg of the race at different times and got to the travel agency at different times, they all managed to get booked on the exact same flight from Mumbai to Kuwait. Nturally, the teams that thought they had a decent lead were none to happy to get on their plane and find all the other teams right there with them.

Once all the teams land in Kuwait City they hop in their marked cars and begin the search for the Kuwait Towers. Amazingly enough every team manages to find the towers relatively easily. Once at the towers, each team had to pull a number off a sign on the wall and wait for the tower to open before starting the challenge. But this wasn’t your usual Amazing Race challenge, this challenge was a little different, and had a few more options then usual.

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Rumor has it the producers and people behind CBS’ hit reality TV series the Amazing Race are already developing and creating a new concept for the 11th installment of the reality TV series. Apparently the newest concept cooked up by Amazing Race producers is to go with the All-Stars edition. This doesn’t come as much surprise to me to be honest, as they are currently on the 10th season of the show and have ample teams to choose from to create an All-Stars edition. After all, if Big Brother and Survivor can get away with it, why no the Amazing Race?

Now, I can’t even begin to make an informed guess as to what teams would be featured in an Amazing Race All-Stars edition, the current season is actually the first time I’ve got back into Amazing Race since the very first season. One thing goes for sure though, is that you can almost gaurantee Rob & Amber will be in an Amazing Race All-Stars edition. They are by far the most popular, for better or worse, winners of the Amazing Race. I personally can’t stand either of them and they both annoy the hell out of me, but they’ve generate more attention for the Amazing Race than any other competing team.

Shooting for Amazing Race All-Stars is set to kick off next month and, thus far, the only teams that are some-what known to have agreed to participate are Colin and Christie, and Mirna and Schmirna, which, of course, means nothing to me since I don’t recognize either team.

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Chrys and I have been running around all day long getting her prepared to head back to Nebraska and, unfortunately, got home half way through Amazing Race. So, instead of recaping the last little bit that I did get to see, I’ll leave it up to the experts.

Rebecca, from Miss604.com, happens to write Amazing Race 10 recaps with some local Vancouver friends over at the Amazing Race 10 blog. So if you’re looking for a recap of tonights episode of the Amazing Race, visit: Amazing Race 10 blog.

This weeks episode of Amazing Race 10 finds all contestants held up in Hanoi, Vietnam, waiting for information on the next leg of the race.

Erwin and Godwin, having finished the last leg of the race in first place, are the first to set out on this leg of the race, which see’s them cabbing to the South East corner of Ly Thai To garden. All teams will start this leg of the race with $50,000 dong or Vietnamese dollars.

The order in which teams starts is very important in Amazing Race and can dictate a lot of what happens from leg to leg of the race. The order the teams started in for this leg of the race was:

1. Erwin & Godwin
2. James & Tyler
3. Rob & Kim
4. Dustin & Kandice
5. Peter & Sarah
6. Lyn & Karlyn
7. David & Mary
8. Tom & Terry

Once teams arrive at the SE corner of Ly Thai To garden they must listen for an announcement which will tell them where to go next. One by one each team determines the sound is coming from a statue and they crowd around it to hear what it says. The announcement tells them they must take a taxi across the Red River to Ben Xai Cai Lai, where they will find a bus station. They must then take a bus to Ha Long Bay and find Hydroform Tavern.

As usual, since the teams started this leg of the race in the middle of the night, the bus depot is closed, allowing all teams enough time to catch up. All teams are even, as a result, and sit around waiting for the first bus to Ha Long Bay.

Once at Ha Long Bay the teams run into a Roadblock. This roadblock is going to be a toughy and will see one member of each team ascending a straight faced cliff using a mechanical ascending device, sort of like repelling, only the complete opposite.

The first team to arrive at the roadblock is Rob & Kim and Rob elects to scale the rock face. Because they some how managed to get a pretty good lead, Rob is the first to complete the roadblock challenge and learns that the next leg of the race will be for all teams to travel, via motorboat, to Sung Sot Cave.

For whatever reason, when Sarah & Peter arrive at the Roadblock, Sarah elects to scale the wall and wastes valuable time trying to do so, though she eventually manages to power through it and get to the top. That is one tough girl and she doesn’t give up.

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This weeks episode of Aamazing Race 10 stars off as usual, with a brief recap of what went down in last weeks Amazing Race 10 episode.

Peter & Sarah were the first team to finish the last leg of the race, as such, they were the first to head out on this leg. They both leave at 6:54am and head for Hanoi, Vietnam where they will search for the “Hanoi Hilton” Prison.

All teams get $0 to start this leg of the race and will be left to rely on whatever money they have left over from previous legs. They are also not allowed to beg or sell anything to make more money. This will certainly prove to be a lot harder for some teams than others.

In order to get to Hanoi, Vietnam via Mongolia all teams must go to the Ghengis Chan hotel where they will buy plane tickets to Vietnam. Big downer for the teams in the lead, the travel agent doesn’t open until 9:00am, at which time almost all the teams have arrived and are battling it out for a spot with one of four vendors, which also doesn’t matter, since everyone gets on the same flight.

Dustin & Kandice cut the line on Tom & Terry and the boys whine and cry like 3 year olds for a few mins before making some snarky comments, giving up and waiting back in line.

All the teams get booked on the 1:00pm flight to Beijing, where they will connect to Hanoi, Vietnam.

Duke & Lauren are falling behind at the airport because, for some stupid reason, Duke decided he wanted to wait for a lady he met on the plane to get help finding where they need to go. Big mistake, as waiting for her to get back to the cab uses up precious time and, to top it off, she wants to be taken to her brothers house before they head to where they need to go. The kicker, her brothers house is 30mins out of the way and they’re no going to have enough money to pay the cab driver. HA! Idiots.

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Tonight’s episode of The Amazing Race 10 starts off as usual, with a brief recap of the last episode, and then we get into the meat of this episode.

All teams start off based on the time they finished the last leg of the race. That means the former models Tyler & James are the first time to head out at 9:04pm. The first leg of the trip sees all teams getting to a bus stop as quick as possible to throw their names on a list for either the 12:00am or 2:00am bus to the capital city of outer Mongolia, where all teams will take in a show at a local temple.

The first five teams to the bus depot get on the 12:00am bus and the second five are left sitting around waiting for the 2:00am bus.

As the teams are sitting around waiting for their bus’ the kentucky team of David & Mary pass the time by socializing with the asians and gays sice they aren’t used to being around or even seeing either. Hooray back-woods Kentucky team! Luckily they don’t seem to be racist or homophobic and actually like the asians and gays, yay!

Peter & Sarah decided to pass the time by trying to get money out of the locals who are infatuated with Sarah’s prostetic leg, alas, they fail miserably and get nothing for their efforts.

The first batch of teams arrive at the Temple, which offers shows every 10 mins. Each team must enter the temple, watch the show and then grab the next bit of info from one of the performers.

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Well, my dumb ass forgot that the Amazing Race 10 season premier was on tonight so I missed the first 15 or so mins of the show and didn’t take any notes on the show. Boooo. I also forgot that a new Simpsons was on that was going to feature one of my favorite bands, The White Stripes, which really sucks.

Anyways, I’ll give a very brief recap of the premier episode of Amazing Race 10 as best I can, and by very brief, I mean very.

Everyone started off somewhere in Washington state, I think Seattle, and the first leg of the race was to get to Seatac airport and catch a flight to Beijing China.

Once everyone arrived in China they were set out to find thr Golden House restaraunt where 1 member of each team had to eat the eyeballs out of 3 stewed fish heads, for a total of 6 fish eyeballs each. Ewwwwwwwww.

After they finished the eating challenge all teams took a ww2 motorbike w/ sidecar to a market where that got the first Detour, choosing between Labour and Leisure. The labor challenge required each team to take a penny cab 1 mile where they would lay stones as part of a walk way in a specific pattern, which turned out to be pretty hard and looked rather difficult, actually. The Leisure challenge required a 2 mile penny cab trip to a square/monestary/something rather where each team must learn a specific set of Tai Chi movements, completing them together and correctly before being allowed to move onto the next leg of the race.

Once each team finished the Labor or Leisure challenges, each team hopped in a cab to the great wall of china where they had to scale the side of the wall and run a few feet to hit the closing marker for the first portion of the race. The last team to arrive at the location were Vipul & Arti, though they were the second team eliminated, as Bilal & Sa’eed were eliminated when they came in last for an earlier challenge.

So, here we are, the official first episode is over and the season has no kicked off. I’m looking forward to this season, it looks to be quite an interesting crew and I’ve already taken a liking to a few of the teams. It’s going to be a good.

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