Belize it or not........(Week 7)

This week's adventure takes our contestants (oops, I mean Bachelorettes) and Bachelor to Belize.

1st date - "Two halves make a whole": Lindzi

The date starts off in............a helicopter.  Yep, another helicopter.  This is getting a little old....need a new mode of transportation here guys.

Ben and Lindzi are circling over this beautiful body of water and Ben says that they're going to jump out of the helicopter and straight into the water.   They were going to take a "Leap of Faith".  And they did.

After this leap, they had a nice romantic dinner on the dock.  Then they wrote a letter and put it in a bottle and threw it into the water.  Say it with me now.......Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.


2nd date - "Do you Belize in love": Emily


Whoa....they must have been listening.......Emily was picked up in a puddle jumper plane and taken to meet Ben.

Ben and Emily have a casual fun and relaxing kind of date.  They road bikes through town, bought coconuts and drank out of them, play basketball with locals, hold hands, go shopping, and dancing.

Then they stumble upon a lobster fisherman and he takes them out to catch lobster.  It looked like fun.  They each caught one.  Woohoo.....Way to go!

They proceed to the Lazy Lizard to eat their lobsters that they caught for dinner.  (but I wonder...how do they know that they were really the ones that they caught.....things that make ya go hmmmmmm)

Meanwhile back at the house during Emily's date, the poor girls are having to listen to Courtney whine and complain and say that she's feeling down, and she doesn't think she wants to take him home.

Funny how much that changes when the next date card arrives....

3rd date - "Let's take the next steps in our relationship": Courtney

Courtney's response to this date card: "He's a smart boy, he listens".  More like he's dumb and should have sent you home in a helicopter.

Courtney leaves in a plane to meet up with Ben.  (yep, plane ride #2) 

They walk through a jungle and *stumble* upon a Mayon temple with tons of steps.  What do they do, you ask?  Well, they climb up the steps of course.  About halfway up the steps, they have a picnic.  This is where Courtney confides in Ben that the "spark has fizzled" for her. All the while playing with her hair and biting her lip.  As Ben listens, he clearly looks confused.

After the picnic, they climb to the top of temple and hang out.  Ben feels close to his dad being up there and then proceeds to say: "I can see my life with this woman."  Really??  Uh, I can't.  I give it a few days, tops.....and that's being generous.

They go to dinner and Ben wants to talk to her about the other girls.  Courtney, being Courtney, lies through her teeth and says: "I've tried to win them over. I compliment them." "They're so vanilla and into themselves." "I'm not impressed by these girls."

Of course then she later says (not to Ben of course):  "Snap. Girls show's over. Pack your bags. You can all go home." 


4th date - "Let's sea who's family I will meet": Rachel, Nicki, Kacie

Ben wakes the girls up at 4AM and tells them to put on their swimsuits.

They promptly begin getting ready, which involves shaving arms in the sink and shaving legs in the shower. 

They meet Ben and they go out on a boat.  Where Ben informs them that they will be shark diving in shark alley. 

Kacie and Nicki thought it was cool and Rachel looked terrified.  (I'm with Rachel on this one)

Kacie and Nicki jumped right in and started swimming with the sharks and sting rays.  Meanwhile Ben was trying to convince Rachel to get in...........she finally did and Ben held her hand most of the time.  This made Kacie jealous and she said that this wasn't fun anymore.

I admire Rachel for even getting in, because I wouldn't have gotten out of the boat.  I'd have been saying "Go ahead! Send me home."

They went back to the hotel after the shark diving and hung out. 

During his one on one time with the girls, he found out that not only 1 girl was falling in love with him, but 2 were.  Nicki and Kacie told him that they were falling.

Kacie received the rose of the date.

Courtney watched their date from the balcony and saw that Kacie received the rose.  To which she said about Kacie "She's like a little girl in a boy's body." and then she told us "I'm over these catty girls".

The girls tell Ben to "tread lightly" with Courtney.

Rose Ceremony

There is no cocktail party because Ben knew what he wanted to do.  Right before he handed out roses, he pulled Courtney aside and talked to her and asked if she was here for the right reasons..........well of course she said she was.........even though everyone except Ben knows that she isn't.

So you'd think Ben would send Courtney home, right?  haha NOPE.  He kept her around.

Roses: Kacie, Lindzi, Nicki, and Courtney
No Rose: Emily, Rachel

 Maybe if Emily and Rachel had told Ben that they were falling in love with him they might have stuck around a little while longer.


Next week it's hometown dates........this should be interesting.  Stay tuned..........