The Amazing Race

View Date: 11/1/09

First off, the teams departed from the Dubai pit stop and flew to Amsterdam. At the airport, all of the teams caught up with the leaders and were on the same flight out of the country. While sitting around the airport waiting for their flight, the Globetrotters shared stories while the brothers came out to the group.

After arriving in Amsterdam, Brian and Erica had trouble getting their car into gear, and started off the driving portion in last place. After getting their next clue, the teams had to make their way to the tallest building in the city and complete a road block. One team member had to count the bells located on two floors in a tower. Once they found the right number, they would receive their next clue. The father/son team came out ahead after this challenge, and made their way to a large windmill, but they got passed on the road.

At the windmill, the teams found a detour, where they had to either complete a Farmer's Game or a Farmer's Dance. Teams had to wear traditional Dutch costumes for either task, one male and one female, and ride bikes to the next part of the detour. For the game, the team members had to strip down to their costume underwear and swim across a creek, then play a crazy game of golf and complete each hole in 8 strokes or less. In the dance, the competitors had to first hit a strongman bell, then had to participate in a traditional Dutch folk dance and eat salted herring with onions.

The golf presented teams with an additional challenge of very unique clubs and incredibly high winds. Most teams chose golf and eventually figured out some tricks to mastering the technique. The brothers made it to the pit stop first after the detour, and won sand buggies as an added reward. The poker players had a huge problem hitting the strong man bell, so they decided to switch to the golf. However, that didn't work much better, so they switched back. During this time, the Globtrotters had lots of fun dancing, and the married couple even caught up and completed the dancing, after taking a wrong turn by not taking bikes to their detour choice.

In the end, the married couple overcame their time penalty for not using the bikes and beat the poker players. The ladies just weren't having any luck with either detour choice, and chose to give up amid tears.

10 words or less: Sad to see the poker players go.