All is well…until…

Wreckage!! Yiiiiiiike! Total rollover.

Cim: Do we stop and help the brothers or do we wave on the way making sure they are okay? That’s a tough call, cuz we ARE playing the game you know, and they do seem to have people helping them!

Jai [counting heads]: Brian…Greg…phew! Ohhhhh…poor cameraman. And oh yeah, if we came across that? WE WOULD STOP, Rob. Yeah, it’s a race, but come on. At least slow down long enough to see who was hurt and what we could do. Love that the brothers say a prayer for him later.

Cim: “What’s the penalty for killing a cameraman? How many hours do you get for that?”
Jai: “It probably varies, depending on whether or not he was union.”

Anyway. We get to Xua Xarra in one piece. We do NOT, however, spend the next seven hundred years whining about how rotten Rob and Amber were for not stopping, and how reverend and wonderful we are for stopping (*cough*LynnandAlex*cough*).

Jai: “Okay, could the boyfriends BE any more self-righteous??
Cim: “Not unless there is a self-righteous additive.”

Jai: “Rob is a smug bastard, but I'd love to race with him. He'd crack me up, and piss me off, and then we'd high-five.”
Cim: “He's smug, but he's personable.”
Jai: “Cim *hearts* B-Rob.”
Cim: “Heh.”

DETOUR
Food or Water
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In this Detour, Teams had to choose between Food and Water. For Food, Teams must use a traditional wooden container and two sticks to grind enough corn to the specific standards of bush women to fill a basket. Teams opting for Water must use reed straws to suck enough water from an underground spring to fill 12 ostrich eggs and then bury the eggs underground for cool storage.
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At Xua Xaara, we meet our next task.

Cim: I’d have to say water…seems like a lot of trouble trying to get the corn (or whatever) meal into the right consistency.

Jai: Yeah. The eggs look faster. And less physically challenging. I’ve got more lung power than arm and back muscles at this point, I think. Even if we start to do the cornmeal, I’m thinking I would totally bail for the watery eggs.

It’s the right choice, of course, especially given what we see later from the other poor saps who chose meal-grinding. (Wow, we hate Ray and Deanna. HAAAATE. It’s a good thing we’re removed from that scene, way over here next to our cache of eggs, because it wouldn’t take much for either Jai or Cim to “accidentally” lose their grip on a pounding stick and “accidentally” hit Ray over the head with it. What do you think the penalty for THAT would be?)