Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | 543 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Peru-ff beyond a reasonable doubt
By Miss Alli | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2005.02.29
With the help of their local, Lynn and Alex and Brian and Greg find the Plaza de Armas, followed by Uchenna and Joyce and Meredith and Gretchen. Their local is still with Brian and Greg, and directs them to the buses to Ancon. He even explains to Uchenna and Joyce -- very cleverly, with counting that they'll understand -- that it's five blocks up to the bus. Uchenna and Joyce decide to run the five blocks to the buses. Other teams, however, decide to take cabs. Cabs? Five blocks? That's totally weird. It's five blocks! What show do they think this is? Lynn and Alex get another local who agrees to take them directly to the buses. Brian and Greg are the only ones on the fourth bus, and then Lynn fans himself and comments, sort of apropos of nothing, that "it is a million caliento." Which kind of means nothing, and yet unmistakably gets his point across. Oh, language, you lovable scamp. They hop on the bus and go. Meredith and Gretchen get on the next bus, with Meredith wiping out on the way over, and as he grasps anything and everything while falling, he narrowly avoids a very very close encounter with parts of his bus driver. He says if they survive the day, it will be the damnedest day of their lives. Well. Uchenna and Joyce get the next bus.
Debbie/Bianca/Susan/Patrick arrive at the sand piles at Playa Hermosa. They remind themselves of the task, which is to search the three piles of sand for tickets. Now, what you do in this task is run to all three piles and see what the times are before you randomly choose one and start digging. Because you don't know what the times are, so you don't know which one is best until you look. Got it? Okay. Debbie and Bianca first look at the 6:00 AM, then at the 7:40 AM, then at the 7:00 AM. So they run back to the 6:00 AM. They fill in Patrick and Susan, and those two teams go and dig in the 6:00 AM pile.
Rob and Amber and their Fern show up next, and as Craig explains how to get to the beach, Rob says, "Thank Gawwd, can you imagine if we didn't find this guy?" Hee. Of course, the fact of the matter is that other teams didn't struggle much with finding the beach, so they probably would have anyway, but it's good to be gracious and grateful. And incidentally, nobody is really cocky who says, "Can you imagine if we didn't find this guy?" Because it means, "We got very lucky."