"Operation: Eat Some Dang Bugs"

**"Operation: Eat Some Dang Bugs"** is the eleventh episode of Sleepy's Amazing Race 8.

## Route Markers

**Pit Start:** The order of departure from Lake Bennett Wilderness Resort are as follows:

1. Clay and Eden (1:13 am)
2. Olwen and Brooke (1:28 am)
3. Ingrid and Beau (1:35 am)
4. Deirdre and Morgan (1:52 am)

**Route Info:** Teams must fly to Bangkok, Thailand. Upon arrival, teams must take a taxi to Mo Chit Bus Terminal and ride a bus to Lopburi. Once in Lopburi, teams will find their next clue at Prang Sam Yot.

**Fast Forward:** The Fast Forward instructions were given to teams after finding their clue at Prang Sam Yot. Teams must travel to Pho Kao Ton in Mueang Lopburi District to try a favorite local after-school activity at Bo Ngoen Pla Pao Restaurant, which they would discover was eating a bowl of fried crickets and grasshoppers. When completed, they would win the Fast Forward.

**Roadblock:** *"Who's ready for some monkey business?"* The team member assigned to perform this Roadblock must assemble a properly-carved and arranged fruit ceremonial feast for monkeys at Prang Sam Yot using a completed example as reference and serve it to them. When the feast is finished and offered to the monkeys, they would receive their next clue.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

* Clay and Eden
* Deirdre and Morgan
* Ingrid and Beau
* Olwen and Brooke

**Route Info:** Teams must take a taxi to the bank of the Chao Phraya River at Pak Kret District and take a ferry to Ko Kret Island. Upon arrival, teams must search the grounds of the Buddha Garden to find their next clue.

**Detour:** Move It or Altar It

For Move It, teams must make their way on foot to the Jom Jam Pottery Factory and transport 72 clay pots through the streets of a market to a docked boat. Teams must balance these clay pots on wooden boards balancing on their shoulders. Once all the pots have been delivered, a merchant would give their next clue. No teams chose this task.

For Altar It, teams must make their way by foot to the Wat Chimphi temple. Once there, they must assemble a shrine and completely gold leaf a Buddha statue to receive their next clue. This task was chosen by Clay and Eden, Ingrid and Beau, and Olwen and Brooke.

**Pit Stop:** Teams must take a ferry back to Pak Kret District, then take a taxi to the Marble Temple in Bangkok to check in. The winners of this leg won a cruise around Sydney Harbour, with visits to the Hunter Valley wine district and the Great Barrier Reef provided by Travelocity. In addition, during their rest period, the winning teams would stay in a luxury hotel room.

## Story

* I provided a lot of opportunity for the teams to get mixed up at the beginning of the leg with different flights to Bangkok and buses to Lopburi, but somehow all of the teams ended up on the same bus lol
* As such, all of the teams arrive at the Roadblock at Prang Som Yot at the same time, where they find the option to either complete the Roadblock or take a risk and go for the Fast Forward.
* At first, only Olwen and Brooke go for the Fast Forward, but Ingrid and Beau remind Deirdre and Morgan of their pact to work against the brothers so the married musicians decide to go for the Fast Forward as well.
* Both of those teams arrive at the Fast Forward at about the same time and discover they must eat a big bowl o' crickets. Deirdre apologizes to Morgan because she doesn't think she can eat them. However, once they're served, the musicians go absolutely apeshit and devour the fuck out of those crickets so goddamn fast that Olwen and Brooke don't stand a chance.
* Deirdre and Morgan receive their clue to the Pit Stop and win their first leg! Olwen and Brooke, on the other hand, are now at a big disadvantage because of all the time they lost trying to win the Fast Forward.
* Brooke apologizes to his brother because he was really slow trying to eat the crickets and expects Olwen to blame him and get mad. Olwen tells him not to worry about it and to just focus on getting through the rest of the leg.
* While all that was going on at the Fast Forward, Clay and Ingrid were working on the Roadblock for their teams. Ingrid keeps making progress but then getting parts of her fruit shrine stolen by monkeys. The monkeys seem to like Clay because none of them bother him! He's also very good with little details so he makes fast work replicating the fruit shrine.
* Clay finishes the Roadblock first and his team gets headed to the Detour. Ingrid takes a bit longer and receives her clue at about the same time Olwen and Brooke get there and get started on the Roadblock.
* Clay and Eden reach the Detour and get started, but this Detour is so hard that all three teams end up working on it at the same time.
* Ingrid and Beau end up finishing the Detour first, with Clay and Eden not far behind them. However, Clay and Eden get lost looking for the Pit Stop, giving Olwen and Brooke a chance to catch up.
* It's a (kinda) close race, or at least made to look close by the editing so that it's more exciting.
* Ingrid and Beau reach the Pit Stop in second place and the team that arrives after them is...
* Clay and Eden. Both teams hug and high five knowing that the plan for their alliance has succeeded and they've reached the final three together!
* The music turns bittersweet as Olwen and Brooke approach the Pit Stop. A montage of their greatest moments plays as they talk about how much fun they had racing together and how well they did until that point. The montage ends and shows them arriving at the Pit Stop and settling in front of Khil.
* Khil informs them that they are the last team to arrive...
* However, this is a non-elimination leg and they are still in The Race! They hug each other and tells Khil that it'll take more than a single bad day to eliminate them! They also swear vengeance against the alliance trying to take them out and vow to avenge their fallen comrades Janelle and Sable.

## Leaderboard

1st**►**- Deirdre and Morgan
Married Musicians
2nd- Ingrid and Beau
Mother/Child
3rd- Clay and Eden
Married
4th- Olwen and Brooke

**►** The team used the **Fast Forward** pass