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On tonight’s amazing race, the groups traveled to Utah. After a quick trip to Monument Valley, they traveled to Moab.
On the way there, the Weaver family managed to severely tick me off by constantly trashing on some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. (At one point, they also trashed on Mormons - what a low class family. The funny thing is - this group wonders why every other team hates them.)

In the most unbalanced detour ever, they had two options:

1. Rappel down 250 feet
2. Bike 6 miles.

If you have to even think twice about that, you have never rappelled before. A 225 foot drop would probably take me no more than 30 seconds to rap down. A 6 mile bike ride in 30 seconds may be possible - if you bike 720 miles per hour - but it is not likely. (Biking faster than the speed of sound is not a likely possibility - unless you are Jason Graham)

After the detour, the teams traveled to Heber and talked to a bear. (How did they find that bear for the show? Strange) On the way there, the Weavel family continued trashing on Utah - this time by picking on the mountains.I think that slowly throughout the show, the Weaver family is making everyone in the country mad at them by trashing on their stomping grounds. If they haven’t trashed on areas you enjoy - don’t worry - they will.

I started laughing when I saw them take some route I’ve never heard of to try to get to Park City from Heber. They were thinking about taking 40, but they decided on some roundabout road. There was no way they could turn their car around because they were pulling a huge trailer. They will definitely be in last place because of that boneheaded mistake.

I’m still watching it - so I will update it when it is done. (this blog was brought to you by the power of the blackberry)

Update: The Weavel family was dead last, but unfortunately it was not an elimination round. In the discussion with the host, it almost sounded like they wanted to quit. I wished that they had - but they didn’t. One more week (at least) of this annoying white-trash family from Florida.

Ford has a new safety promotion they are doing called “Driving Skills for Life” - it’s kind of like an online driver’s ed. There is a course, and a quiz. Score 8 out of 10 on the quiz, and you get 10 free songs from iTunes.

As a side note… on their rules page, I thought this section was funny:

OFFICIAL RULES: For a copy of the Official Rules, print this page

You can take the quiz as many times as you need to in order to score 8/10. The test is made up of radomly chosen questions, so it will be diffferent each time. I did it on my second try. Most of the questions I got wrong were related to rear-wheel drive cars.

The quiz is somewhat slow - probably because of a heavy load on their server right now.

I may have lost some of my touch from when I was a youngster. When I was 16 in my drivers ed class I took some extremely long test that went along with a video (as in, watch video - respond on answer sheet) - and I only got one wrong. The statistics from that test say that I should not have any accidents before I am 60. (I guess once I turn 60 I will start hitting things for fun). So far - that test has been right. Knock on dashboard.

To take the quiz, go to Ford’s Driving Skills for Life page

BYU is headed to the Las Vegas bowl on December 22nd. This is good news for all cougar fans that will be in the Vegas area. It might be good news for those of us around the country because it is going to be on ESPN. (There is still a good chance that ESPN will deny those of us traveling to the East coast the pleasure of watching the game and just put it on ESPN regional.)

Be sure to get the time right, because they list the time on their website in Pacific time. (5:00PM Pacific time). [One year I missed a bowl game because the BYU site listed it in Eastern time because it was being played in Memphis, but I thought they were listing it in Mountain time.]

No word yet on who they are playing. It is likely someone from the PAC-10.
Las Vegas Bowl website
Deseret News article

UPDATE:It will be aired nationally: “The 2005 Pioneer PureVison Las Vegas Bowl, an ESPN Regional Television owned-and-operated event, will kickoff at 5 p.m. (PST) and will be televised nationally on ESPN.” - according to byucougars.com