I was watching The Amazing Race last week (one of three shows I will watch on TV). There's lots of things I love about this show. I think it's interesting the countries they visit, the challenges they have to complete, and sometimes the sheer chance that can send a team from last to first.
Inevitably the teams will end up at a challenge that will ask them to eat some funky something that is a local favorite. Those scenes are usually nasty to watch. Definitely not as bad as Fear Factor was, but still gross.
On this particular episode I watched, the teams started in California and had a quick challenge before hopping on a plane to Australia. As I sat there and watched I had the same thought I have every season, "I wonder if my husband and I could do that show. My husband is very travel-savvy, which is a huge part of this show. We work well together and could figure out the puzzles and tasks...." As I'm thinking about this, the teams make it to their first Roadblock. They are scuba diving in a huge tank looking for a compass that will be the key to a puzzle they have to decode. In the tank with them are six foot long sharks and a a bunch of stingrays. One stingray is the size of a queen size bed!
Well that answers that then. We would have been stopped at our first Roadblock. My husband hates sharks and I don't even scuba dive. So neither one of us would have even gotten in the tank. If I ever wonder again, all I need to do is remember this Roadblock and I can stop wasting my time. :)
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