Survivor Season Finale

Last night was the season finale of Survivor and our friend Chase came in a super close 2nd place. He lost 5-4 on jury votes after winning four straight reward challenges and physically dominating play throughout the season.

He was awesome! A little crazy on some decisions, smart on others, made crucial alliances and broke them when they didn't work out. Basically he played Survivor and almost won whole dang thing.

The most crazy part of the whole show is when they let the jury have a say and ask any questions that they want. About 50% of the people don't even ask questions, they just use the opportunity to verbally back-slap the contestants who have outwitted, outlasted and outplayed them. It's a grown-up version of sour grapes and it looks so silly and immature. I would love to see Survivor figure out a new way to do this section of the show.

Otherwise, it couldn't have been more fun to watch and see Chase "survive" week after week!

Survivor

Are you all ready for the newest reality TV show Survivor?

Hello lead-in from the year 2000. That was the year that I moved to Asheville into a little apartment on Chunn's Cove Road with Jennifer Little.

Our first event at our apartment was the season finale of the very first season of Survivor. We had about 15 random people over that we didn't even know and most of them became very good friends. Including Mr. Brad Bucklad.

The next summer, Brad and I took 10 high school kids on a backpacking trip to Medicine Bow in Wyoming. One of those kids was named Chase Rice. He was football player who I swear, ate over 5,000 calories a day and the guides allotted somewhere around 1,500 calories a day on that trip. That poor boy was starving to death. All he talked about all week was food and Gatorade.

We came home and his parents came to Sharp Top Cove to be adult guests and fell in love with Young Life. They had a horse barn in front of their house that they decided needed to be converted into a space for our area's Young Life needs. They got rid of their horses and turned the place inside out so that we could have a club room, kitchen, game room and fire pit.

We've been having clubs, all area-clubs, campaigners and Wyld-Life there for the last 8 years.

I just saw this headline. That Chase Rice is going to be on the next Survivor that premiers on September 15th.

I haven't watched the show in years, but you can bet your bippy that I will be watching and cheering him on!

Go Chase Go! (Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book doesn't it?)

I have pictures of him in my basement from high school, but I won't do that. Yet.