*See the next post if you wondered what that flower was yesterday*
Back at camp after tribal council, Shane is trying to figure out what happened... Cirie and Aras lie to hime and he buys it hook, line & sinker... Dang it... The whole point of watching tonight was to see Shane go nuts... Oh well....
Danielle also showed Terry that he really was alone out there and he'd need to win everything from here till the end...
REWARD CHALLENGE: SECOND CHANCE
this Reward Challenge combines elements of past Challenges put together in a four-stage obstacle course. First, the five tribemates will dig in a circle of sand, each looking for a bag. The first four to find their bag move on to the second round. In the second round, they will carry their bags with them to untie a wooden snake. The first three to get to the finish with both bag and snake proceed to the third round. The third round, they will carry the bag and snake as they race over a sand hill and into a water pit, where they will untie a large fish. The first two to get to the finish with fish, bag and snake will move on to the final round. In the last round, the last two standing will go head-to-head, carrying all three items that they have collected through a series of wooden tunnels and towers. The first person to the finish wins the Reward: face-to-face in person with a loved one. The winner of the Challenge will be responsible for allocating who wins love and how much love they get.
They get knocked out in this order... Shane first, Cirie, Danielle, Aras- That leaves Terry as the winner...
Terry gets to decide who gets to do what with their loved ones... He picks his wife to stay in a hotel with him... Shane's son (Boston Powers??? OMG.. I can't believe he named his son Boston Powers!) and Shane are coming with them... Cirie's man is going back to camp to spend the night... Aras gets a hug from his mommy... and Danielle's mom says goodby while Danielle goes to Exile island.
I would have almost done the same thing, but I would have let Cirie and her man go back to the hotel... I'd figure that anybody who has a chance of getting some might want to be clean first. Let the boy have a night camping with his old man.....
After all the family visits, Aras bitches at Terry cuz he's a big mama's boy and he wanted time with his mommy, damn it! He thinks of her as more than a guy thinks of his wife, and I trully wonder where they cast this year's show... These people are a bunch of fruitcakes!
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: PERCH
the Immunity Challenge will test the Survivors' balance and accuracy. Each tribe member will stand on a very small perch at the top of a 20-foot poll in the water. When the game begins, they will lower a bucket into the water to fill it, then pour from the bucket into a very narrow bamboo shoot. As the bamboo shoot fills up with water, it will raise a flag. Once the flag is high enough to reach, they must carefully grab it and raise it above their head.
During this challenge, Shane's total lack of a brain has never been more evident... He is pouring water basically on his feet... He's not gonna win anything... Terry wins immunity again- for what, the 900th time? So the tribe must eat another of their own...
At tribal council, Shane discovers his strong alliance doesn't need him anymore, he is voted out and sent packing.... Well... at least now he can go buy a pack of smokes....
Now... I'm just waiting for this canna leaf to finish opening.... I just really liked this shot for some reason....
It is a flower spike off some kind of aloe plant. I'm not sure what it is exactly, it came with the house... here's a crappy little pic of when it was in bloom...
Here's a pic of the plant it comes off of....
And here is the flower spike as of yesterday... There were actually three flowers on this thing, but I pretty much missed the other two...
The next neat one that will open is just forming on a bromiliad I stuck in a knothole on a tree out back. I noticed the flowerhead just starting to sneak out when I went back there yesterday. I'll post pics when it opens...
