Of all the episodes this far I think the Thailand leg was the toughest for us. Not just because of the physical challenges and all the hustling to get to places but mostly because we really wanted the first position. It is our home country after all- that being said Phuket isn’t our area- Bangkok is! We managed to get the taxi before everyone else. I was not aware that the rest of the people was stuck at the taxi counter for that long, and not least the mean looks we got when we ran away from there.
While we were exiting the airport our taxi driver told us that he didn’t have enough gas to get to the elephant park… We were kind of freaking out as we thought everyone was right in our heels. Luckily we found a gas station on the way and made sure he filled the tank 100% in case we would need him further. He was a trooper though, he understood that we were on a race and went on as fast as he could (not many does!).
Around 45 minutes later when we were turning in to the section where the elephant park was, we spotted another taxi, it was Maggie and Parul. We saw that they were ahead but they were heading on the wrong course so we quickly turned in on the narrow road leading us to the park making us the first team to arrive.
When we got there we weren’t quite sure what piles we were heading for, you pretty much have to make a guess as the clues are somewhat vague sometimes- but holds enough information for you to be able to execute the task. That’s the bad side of being the first at a challenge- you can’t follow another example, you simply have to pave the way. It’s always best to arrive second. Collecting the pineapple leaves was hard, they had some sharp thingies sticking out of them and I was wearing a shorts. My legs were all red and full of cuts afterwards. There were also white scorpions in the batch, I’m not even kidding. That being said, the pain did not arrive until after reaching the pit stop.
We finished collecting the leaves first so we had to find the way to elephants and others could just follow our path. We got on the elephants first and even managed to ride them for a bit before Louisa and Treasuri caught up. Now, remember- they arrived 3rd after Maggie and Parul. These girls are hustlers. Not only that- their elephants was also a little hustler and somehow managed to cut our elephant and they took the lead with at least 3o seconds. When we arrived to the pineapple leaves that we had collected earlier in the task, our elephant decided he wasn’t hungry… But, Maggie and Parul’s AND Louisa and Treasuri’s elephant had a bite, meaning they left the sight and we we’re team number 3… after maybe like 10 minutes of trying to make our elephant eat.
Our next clue was to head to Sarasin Bridge, again, our taxi driver was amazing so we arrived there second, we saw Louisa and Treasuri run before us (without their backpacks) and Maggie and Parul arrived when we left the bridge.
Next clue was a detour, untie or Muay Thai. We went for untie and arrived there first. We were kind of hoping that Louisa and Treasuri were lost as you can see from the episode, but they arrived right after us.
Me and Tom had a little argument on how to untie the rope making us leave the detour second, I think Louisa and Treasuri left around 10 minutes before us. We were quick to get to the next place and Louisa was still trying to finish the roadblock. Tom finished it on the second try, way to go babe! It looked hard. You had to balance coins on your head and hands for 15 minutes… 
After the roadblock we had to find our next clue on Laypang beach, we got there quite fast and saw Louisa and Treasuri there, they managed to pick up the coconuts before us leaving us 2 minutes behind them and the 2nd team to arrive.
It sucked… because we were SO CLOSE.
Tune in tomorrow to see how we do in the next episode! <3 8pm on AXN!
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