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| Johnathan rocking some of his swag for our off day! |
We got started at 10:30 and took our 4-hour car drive back
to Oslo. When we got there, we had a
quick lunch and then about 4 hours to kill before dinner. I had been avoiding buying souvenirs, so as
to not jinx myself, but since we all will be leaving after this week, I figured
it was time. I spent about two hours
hitting up all the souvenir shops and got something for everyone in the
extended family. Then, I came back to the
hotel and got a 30-minute run in on the treadmill. Finally, we met for dinner at 7:30. It was then that we heard some bad news.
Apparently, back on the cruise/ferry, Jessica, in a drunken
stupor, was so proud of herself for combining the two beds in her room, that
she did some kind of jump onto them to celebrate, but landed right on the metal
framing where the beds met! She didn’t
notice anything at the time, other than a somewhat sore back, but over the last
couple of days it’s been hurting her more and more, to the point where she went
to the doctor today. Turns out, she
fractured a rib or two!! It hurts her to
cough, laugh, and sometimes even breathe!
With that, she’s freaking out about any physical challenges that we may
have to do. I feel really bad for
her! However, if there’s one thing this
season has proven, is that physical challenges are rare, so hopefully she won’t
be affected. As nice as it is to have an
opponent at less than 100%, that is not how you want to win. In order to be the best, you have to beat the
best and you want them at their best, so there’s no question as to who the new
best is! (How about that for over-using
one word?!)
With that, I figured now may be a good time to rank my final
three competitors. Probably the biggest
change for me is C.J.. Looking back at
my earlier rankings, I never gave him a ton of respect and have quickly
realized that he may have been the best player here the whole time! As we’ve seen, there’s been a ton of
memory-based and intellectual challenges, which he has proven over and over
that he will destroy on! He may be my
biggest threat remaining! Second would
probably be Jessica. She too has proven
herself to be a much better competitor that I originally gave her credit
for. She just doesn’t lose! With that, I think she may be the best out of
the three, but knowing that she’s having these rib issues makes me think that
she won’t be as good as she typically would.
Finally, there’s Johnathan. He
may be my least feared opponent when compared to the other two, but it isn’t by
much. He knows the language, has proven
to be able to compete physically, and, even though he plays it off as he
doesn’t care much about the competition and just wants to have fun, he gets his
game face on when it’s time. The more
that I think about it, the more I can see him being just as big of a threat as
the other two. In fact, all three of my
competitors (and friends, which is such a weird and funny feeling) could be
just as dangerous to me winning this thing!
I’ll have to have 100% focus on getting to the finish line, step by
step!
Moving forward, we had dinner at a Thai restaurant. It was really good and we should go to one in
Indy. After dinner, we went back to the
hotel. It was going to be our last night
there, so we were going to go to our favorite bar, Tilt, but wanted to drink in
the hotel first, to save money. We all
shared a bottle of whiskey and then headed to the bar. We got there at 11:00 and at midnight, several
members of the crew showed up. We went
on to have a really fun night and closed down the bar. We all went back to our hotel around 3:30 and
called it a night. It was a great way to
celebrate our last night there!
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| Tilt! The greatest bar in Oslo! |
Day 57 Over!!
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