Hooray!

How AWESOME was that last episode of The Amazing Race? I am so thrilled that Chip & Kim won. I almost had a heart attack with all that drama, though. I'm not kidding. I was sad in the first hour when Colin came out of nowhere and whipped Linda's butt climbing that mountain, but the luging and Nicole's whinefest on the biking course in hour two was just classic. In Calgary, when Chip & Kim found out that early flight to Dallas had been delayed - priceless. It's pretty funny that Colin & Christie spent so much time preparing (calling ahead for a town car and pulling stuff out of their backpack to check), yet they didn't bother to check up on whether their flight had been delayed. Chip was totally right about the Colin on top of his game would have caught that. Overall, I think that is something that helped Chip & Kim win - their accurate awareness of their competitors and those competitors' downfalls. Other teams just wanted to beat the other teams; they didn't stop and consider HOW to beat them.

Another great moment was the problem of checking the bags. Both Colin & Christie and Brandon & Nicole felt they were going to get a leg up by checking their bags, yet it ended up screwing them in the end when they couldn't get on the United flight. They might not have been able to get on that flight anyway, but duh, everyone should know that their luggage cannot travel without them. It's like the number one rule of air travel since 9/11.

Oh yeah, and Drew did win Big Brother 5. Kind of a ho-hum finale. At least Drew is from Ohio. Go Ohio! Oh, and Jase really isn't that likeable even outside of the house, is he?