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Meanwhile, the Longhorns Trey & Lexi are unloading their ice and are neck-and-neck with the twins, who are making significant headway on their fish display. With a thumbs up from their fish market guy, the twins get the clue and are now searching the market for the Pitstop. Unfortunately for me and my interest in this season, Natalie & Nadiaya get first place and the highly-coveted Express Pass. I find it humorous that Nadiaya (I think) explains that it is such a confidence booster to get the Pass because they have been thinking about it from day one. Um, you mean, you have been thinking about it for a whole three days. Wow, that is some commitment there. I am glad that you achieved your three-day long dream of an Express Pass. Mind you, a million dollars should be the focus of your efforts but what do I know. Ugh. I am not happy.

Trey & Lexi are checked in as number two and explain that they are happy that if they couldn’t get the Express Pass that the twins did. This alliance is making Trey & Lexi lose a bit of favorability in my eyes.

James & Abba and Caitlin & Brittany are both at the Detour and select Ice. As they start the Detour, Team Beefcake and the divorcees are at the market to drop off their ice. With successive quick edits, we see that Jaymes & James, Abbie & Ryan and Josh & Brent are checked in at the Pitstop as numbers three, four and five. That means that this Detour is not really TV-friendly as we have seen minimal action during the teams’ attempts. In fact, we didn’t see a second of footage of Josh & Brent.

Back to the more interesting situation unfolding in Amy & Daniel and Rob & Kelley, who are both on the brink of cabbie homicide as they both have no idea where they are. This is likely the break that substitutes Gary & Will need to recover from Will’s balloon inadequacy.

James & Abba hit the mat as team number six, while the monster truckers and substitutes are chipping away at the first part of Ice. Still no sight of Amy & Daniel who finally have the discouraging direction from a local that the place they are looking for is “long way” away. This is great news for Will, who is sure they will be eliminated because of his Roadblock stumble.

Caitlin & Brittany are officially number seven and Amy & Daniel are at the Detour at long last. Rob & Kelley hit the mat next. The sneaky producers attempt to milk drama by showing Gary & Will struggling with delivering the ice and slowing sauntering through the market defeated but we all know that the dating couple is last. And so it shall be.

The substitutes are checked in as number nine and that means that the only thing that could save my favorite team is a very early non-elimination. Sadly, that isn’t in the cards. With class, Amy & Daniel don’t blame their supremely inept cab driver who cost them $1 million but rather just adopt the mindset that it wasn’t meant to be. For the record, I don’t regret placing them so high in my rankings, because they were arguably eliminated as a result of someone else’s colossal error and I think they are a better team than this placement reflects.

This one ranks in the top three most disappointing early eliminations for me, along with Justin & Zev’s lost passport-induced elimination and Ethan & Jenna’s elimination from a questionable double elimination on the second leg.

Hopefully by next week my interest in this season will have been renewed but right now, I am bummed and not really excited about what the rest of the season holds. The upcoming Double U-Turn could be fun to watch, though.

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