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ERIC & DANIELLE WIN WHEN IT COUNTS
Having never won a leg the entire Race, surviving two Yields, being "marked for elimination", and even being removed from a plane, the comeback kids Eric & Danielle finished in grand fashion by winning THE AMAZING RACE: ALL-STARS. Beauty queens Dustin & Kandice settled for second place while cousins Charla & Mirna took third.
QUEEN OF THE AIRPORT
Departing the Pit Stop in first place at 11:53am, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice opened their clue to discover they had to fly over 3,800 miles to Honolulu, Hawaii and make their way to the Kamaka Air Hangar and sign up for one of three helicopter flights en route to the island of Lanai.
Arriving at the airport, the beauty queens quickly booked a flight on Northwest departing at 3:50pm, connecting through Tokyo, and landing in Honolulu at 7:40am. When dating couple Eric & Danielle showed up, the 3:50pm flight had already been fully booked. However, the Northwest agent told the relieved couple that the 4:20pm flight would connect to the same plane in Tokyo scheduled to land in Hawaii at 7:40am. Arriving last at the airport, cousins Charla & Mirna also booked tickets on the 4:20pm flight with Eric & Danielle.
Landing in Tokyo, Dustin & Kandice strolled to the gate where they would connect to the Northwest flight landing at 7:40am with the other Teams. When the second flight landed, Eric & Danielle joined the beauty queens at the gate, but Charla & Mirna simply vanished confusing the other two Teams. Mirna once again upheld her reputation as a strong airport strategist by noticing a United flight on the departures board that would land at 7:00am, 40 minutes earlier. After some begging and pleading, the cousins snuck onto the flight as the befuddled beauty queens and Eric & Danielle, now 40 minutes behind, wondered why the cousins weren't on their flight.
Touching down in Honolulu, cousins Charla & Mirna took a taxi to Kamaka Air Hangar to secure the first helicopter flight to Lanai leaving at 9:00am. After a taxi race to the hangar, Eric & Danielle edged out Dustin & Kandice for the 9:10am helicopter flight while the disappointed beauty queens settled for a 9:20 departure. When Eric & Danielle questioned Charla & Mirna on how they got to Hawaii before them, the cousins played coy insisted they took the same flight. Mirna joked, "You want me to tell you the stewardess, what they looked like?"
RIDING THE WAVES
When the cousins landed on the island of Lanai, the plucky duo drove three miles to Kamalapau's Harbor and opened their clue to find the last Detour of the Race having to choose between Under and Over. In Under, Teams needed to take a boat to an underwater cave and swim under the rocks where their next clue would be waiting for them. In Over, Teams had to take a boat to an inlet where both Team members needed to stand and paddle themselves on a paddleboard to a buoy to retrieve their next clue.
Making the decision to hop up on paddleboards, Charla discovered that her low center of gravity made the task significantly easier for her than her taller cousin, Mirna. As Mirna struggled to maintain her balance on the paddleboard, Charla offered the advice to keep low on the board. A frustrated Mirna soon began to gain her balance and began paddling trying to make up ground on her cousin ahead.
Seeing Mirna's troubles on the paddleboard, dating couple Eric & Danielle switched tasks and chose to swim into the underwater cave even with Eric's phobia of sharks. As the couple reached the cave for their underwater swim, the cousins finished paddling to the buoy and discovered they needed to drive through the lush Lanai landscape to Shipwreck Beach, named for the beached World War II Liberty Class cargo ship looming off its shores. Once there, Teams had to trek one mile up the beach to find their next clue.
After Eric & Danielle made it back to shore, beauty queens Dustin & Kandice took their turn swimming to the underground cave. At the cave's entrance, Dustin began to panic at the prospect of diving under in the strong ocean current. She later commented, "To try to time swimming under this cave with the current so that you could actually get under and not be crushed against the rock was intimidating. I was gasping for air. I just wanted to survive at that point." Dustin survived her scare as she and Kandice grabbed the clue and made it back to shore still in last place. |
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