Final 3 Set on TAR

The good news? There's finally an all girl team in the final three of The Amazing Race. The bad news? It's not Dustin & Kandice.

This was another great leg of the race. This was the second "gross food" roadblock this season (3rd challenge overall when you figure in the cow lips fast forward). Eating the camel meat, though, was really more a mental task then physical. It seemed like if they didn't know it was camel, it wouldn't have been bad at all...James & Kandice both did it quickly, commenting that it tasted like hamburger. It's just the whole idea of eating camel that slowed the other two teams up.

Speaking of the other teams...what is up with Rob & Kimberly? Every week they melt down, and every week they are all teary-eyed and in love at the pit-stop. Of course, this week's finish was even more of the tears & love. Did Rob actually start to cry and talk about how he wants to marry Kimberly? I guess that's touching...they certainly do deserve each other. They don't bother me nearly as much as Lyn & Karlyn. I do have to hand it to Lyn - she did a good job of keeping reasonably calm in the face of Karlyn's nastiness. I think that she set a good example for her kids, which is far more than I can say about Karlyn. She is acting far more like one of Lyn's kids than Lyn's friend. I would put her on the list of most obnoxious racers ever. I will say, though, that we were so excited when they chose the tomatoes detour...my husband got so excited as they were driving there, thinking of what Karlyn's reaction would be to being pelted by the locals.

I'm bummed that the beauty queens were eliminated. They were a far better team to be the first all-female winners than the 'Bama girls. That, and they could have actually won. Tyler & James were right - having 'Bama in the final three gives them a much better chance to win (it's like having a one in two shot, instead of one in three). I also liked how they broke more than a few stereotypes about beauty queens. I know, it's strange to even type that, but I have a few friends that did the Miss Virginia pageant (one who actually was Miss Virginia), and they are bright, wonderful people - nothing like you would expect.

So next week is the final...I'm pretty sure that Rob & Kimberly win. Or Tyler & James. In the preview at the end of this week's episode, it shows all three teams running for the finish line...two of them look happy.