India was total chaos

AR.jpg What was your first impression of India?
Christy: It was total chaos. India was really hot and really loud and really crowded. It's pretty much the complete opposite of the United States.
Kelly: It's very dusty and smells spicy and I knew my allergies were going to go berserk. When we hoped into a cab at the airport it was mass chaos. There are no traffic lights and no traffic laws. It was just craziness.

Kelly, how much time did you spend on the Roadblock?
Kelly: An unnecessary amount of time. It took at least six tries. I was probably there 25 minutes, running though the crowd as they pelted me with dye and water. That Roadblock took me the longest out of all the teams.

How long did it take you to get the dye off?
Christy: Oh my gosh, that dye did not budge! Weeks later and my hair was still pink. I had to have the front of my hair bleached and then re-dyed to get the pink out.
Kelly: I had every color of the rainbow on me, which turned me black from head to toe. It came off my skin pretty easily but my hair was greenish black for a few weeks. It wasn't cute at all.

Where do you think you went wrong during that leg?
Christy: We really got a bad deal on cab drivers that day. The driver said he knew where he was going but he really didn't so we drove around lost for a long time. By the time we got to the detour we were exhausted.
Kelly: I'll tell you what happened. When we got to the Roadblock, we didn't read the clue carefully. I ended up running though the crowd an unnecessary amount of times. I was only grabbing a single envelope, thinking I had to go back to Christy to open it up. Turns out that I only needed to find the one marked envelope. It was a lack of attention to detail when reading the clue that really screwed us up. Then when we got to the detour at the market we were writing down the wrong numbers - it was just a mess. Our necks hurt and we were already freaking out about being last.

What are you doing now?
Christy: I've written an autobiography that I'm pitching as sort of a chick lit book about my experiences with my ex-husband. And we started a foundation to benefit poverty-stricken countries visited by the Amazing Race.
Kelly: You can go to our Web site, www.kellyandchristy.com, where you can find a link to our Amazingrace Foundation.

| Posted: November 10, 2008 |

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