Amazing Race 15 - Episode 9

Last week, FARMERS GOT LUCKY (YAY)!!! Five teams remain...

Flight Time and Big Easy are the first team to depart at 2:23 AM from Bogs Gard Farm just outside Stockholm, Sweden.

FIRST CLUE: Teams must now travel by ferry across the Baltic Sea to the city of Tallinn, Estonia. They receive a bunch of keys. Once there, teams must figure out how to open up the door to Mustpeade, the secret lair of the Brotherhood of the Blackheads, where they will find their next clue.

It's the middle of the night, so the ferry probably won't go again until morning. Globes follow someone to the ferry station. The Globes find out that the next ferry is at 5:45 PM!!! The Blondes take off to the ferry station followed by Team USA. Rainbow is next. Globes are sleeping in their car and they tell everyone they have to wait until 5:45 PM!! Farmers (!!) leave next. BUNCHING!! ALL teams are going on the same ferry.

The teams arrive in Tallinn, Estonia. They run out and start asking taxis to take them to Mustpeade. The Blondes and Rainbow arrive first and they find the hidden keyhole. They start checking all of their keys. They find their way in and get the next clue before Team USA, Globes and Farmers arrive to figure it out.

ROADBLOCK: The Brotherhead of the Blackheads is a secret society of merchants that has existed in Estonia for at least 600 years. One person from each team must join the ranks of the Brotherhood to uncover a mystery. Teams must descend into the cellar and find a candelabra with a room number attached to it. Then, they must locate that room and find what appears to be a blank scroll. What they need to figure out, is if they hold the scroll above a lit candle, it will reveal their next clue.

Sam and Cheyne are doing the roadblock. Meanwhile Team USA and the Farmers arrive at Mustpeade. Team USA tries their keys while Farmers are hit with a SPEEDBUMP.

SPEEDBUMP: They must find a sauna bus, strip down to robes and take a 5 minute sauna with locals. Sauna bus?? Really?? Weird.

Globes show up and they are with Team USA trying to get into the Mustpeade. Farmers look for the Sauna Bus. Cheyne and Sam are looking for the rooms on their candelabra. Team USA and Globes make it in. Flight Time and Miss America are doing the roadblock. They find the candelabras and go searching. Farmers find the sauna bus and take a sauna. Gross..it's sweaty, tight quarters.

Flight Time finds the room and the scroll. He thinks that he needs a crayon to scratch on the scroll and he starts coloring. Cheyne finds his room and thinks, since all he has is the candle,
he'll hold the scroll up to the light.

Back in the sauna bus, the Farmers are in a crowded sauna with a pretty cute blonde Estonian girl. Dad is going on and on about Minnesota and how he has Finnish relatives. Matt is a little embarassed, especially since they are all practically sitting on top of one another. :)

Miss America found the scroll and started using the candle but doesn't see anything. You have to let the heat soak in and be patient. So Cheyne and Miss America figure it out. Farmers work it out and get into Mustpeade and Matt does the task. Unfortunately, Matt doesn't know what a CANDELABRA is!!!

All the other team members are onto the next place, Pikk Hermann Garden Tower. Matt is still struggling until he realizes that candelabra sounds a lot like "candle". He finds his room number and goes searching for the room. Team USA and the Blondes find the next clue at the tower...DETOUR.

DETOUR: In the bogs (swamps) of Estonia teams must choose between "Surf" or "Sling". In Surf, teams must slog around the knee deep bog to play a local team a game of volleyball. They have to score 5 points to earn their next clue. In Sling, teams plant their feet in the mud and use a slingshot to fire assorted vegetables at a target (picture of a moose). When they hit the target, the table next to the target will collapse dumping cabbages on the ground along with their next clue.

Blondes pick surf and they tell Team USA that they'll have their taxi call them a taxi. As soon as they take off, they tell the driver to forget about the other team. Meanwhile, Miss America thinks Brian gave the Blondes their taxi and starts yelling at him. Team USA finally finds a taxi and decide to do surf also.

Matt finds the scroll and does what Flight Time does by rubbing a pencil on the scroll. NO MATT!! Just hold it up to the light!! He figures it out and they head out.

Rainbow and Globes find the detour and they all share a cab. Those teams do not like each other. Rainbow is frustrated that Globes are doing so well. Farmers find the tower but can't find the clue.

Farmers finally find the clue and head out to the detour. They are going to do the sling shot.

Blondes arrive and have to strip down and start to play. Ooh, the bog is really deep. They are doing really well. Globes put on their team outfits in the taxi to play volleyball. They have no idea. Globes, Rainbow and Team USA arrive and they can't find the path to the volleyball courts. The Blondes win and get the next clue.

NEXT CLUE: Teams must now trudge even further through the bog and search for the Keava Raba Overlook Tower, the next Pit Stop for this leg of the race.

Blondes head to the pit stop.

The Blondes are team #1. They win a red cedar sauna. Hmm.

The teams finally find the path and head to the volleyball courts. Rainbow and Globes are doing the volleyball game. Since Team USA has to wait, they decide to do the slingshots. Globes and Rainbow are STRUGGLING. They start to get the hang of it and get some points. Globes finish and head to the pit stop. Rainbow finishes and head to the pit stop. It's a race to the pit stop and Flight Time falls. It's unclear if Dan had something to do with the fall. They are at the pit stop and start to bicker about whether Dan hit Flight Time or the other way around.

Rainbow is Team #2 and Globes are Team #3.

Farmers finally arrive just as Team USA hits the target and runs to the pit stop.

Team USA is Team #4.

Farmers easily hit the target and run to the pit stop.

Farmers are eliminated from the race. :( They are so cute. I'm so sad they're gone. They are so great. Dad totally tears up about how proud he is of his son. I'm totally crying. SO SWEET. I will miss them.

I guess I'm rooting for the Globes now. Don't fail me, guys. I'm running out of teams that I like.

See you next week.