I'm a big fan of CBS's The Amazing Race, the 14-seasons-strong reality show in which 10 or 11 teams of two contestants each have to negotiate various challenges in a race around the world. The incentive: $1 million for the winning team.
Last night's installment found the teams in China. During one challenge there, teams had to go by raft to the middle of a small bay, where one person from each team had to throw fish into the water for trained birds to retrieve. Yes, you read that correctly: birds. As one contestant noted, "If someone put filet mignon in my mouth, I would eat it, not hand it back."
Here is the clip. I don't know how those birds were trained (maybe I don't want to know), but I thought the challenge was very cool.
P.S. I totally thought that Keisha and Jen were playing dirty with Luke. Way dirty -- and not in a good way.
PLAYING AND TRAINING. Having Fun with BettyB
5 weeks ago
4 comments:
We love that show too and enjoyed seeing those birds work.
My daughter and I keep talking about trying out for that show. Only a few more months till she's the magic age of 21 and we can do it. I would have totally done the bird challenge, and we agreed that calligraphy rather than choreography would have been the way to do.
My husband jokes about trying to get on the show, but it's a long-standing joke in our marriage that I'm a terrible map reader and poor navigator, so it would be a disaster. :o)
Fortunately, Julie is good with maps and has an amazing sense of direction. Which is good, because I'm lousy with maps, too.
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