Survivor Catch-Up

As most of you know I've been stuck in a hotel for most of the week. The conference I'm at is actually in the hotel, and I am too young to rent a car without going over my company trip budget. Unfortunately, this has led to a lot of TV watching. With the limited number of channels available (most of them taken up by ESPN-5 to be exact) I've been focusing on TLC and HGTV. Through that I have found a new obsession-Jon&Kate Plus 8. I have watched it sporadically before when its been on but I don't think I had seen an episode through. I definitely caught up this week. For those of you who don't know that is a show about a couple in Pennsylvania who have twin 7 year old girls and sextuplet 4 year olds. I have been very fascinated by this. On a side note, one of my favorite things about staying in a hotel is almost no guilt in TV overload (nothing else to do, right?).

This obsession with Jon&Kate led to a disaster today-a complete absence of them in the TLC lineup for tonight. I was racking my brain for what I was going to do without my staple (At this point I would like to point out I haven't been completely lazy. A good part of this TV-watching has been while in the hotel gym which I usually have had to myself so I have gotten to dictate the channel). Suddenly it occured to me that Survivor posts episodes online-and I was only halfway through Season 13 on my tapes at home! Score! How did I not think of this earlier in the week? So I spent all night catching up on Survivor, complete through the finale (minus episodes 13 and 14-does anyone know why they are missing from the website?). All I can say is WOW, I could not stop watching, what a great season! I picked a bad season not to watch live because I missed having people to talk about it with-so I must get it all out here!

First of all, I want to say I have always loved Cirie, and I really wanted to see her in the finals. One of the missing episodes was the one where she was voted off, so at least I missed that pain. Someone I did not like, however, was Natalie. It seemed like she was very quiet the first half of the season then she just appeared out of nowhere. I really need to vent about her. Her every expression and word that came out of her mouth was driving me absolutely crazy. Sadly I also did not see the episode where she got voted off (another missing one), but I can't wait to see it when I get home. She could possibly be my least favorite person in Survivor history.

Erik-wow. I don't know what to say about this one. He annoyed me pretty much all season, a reason I wanted him gone. I was a little torn in the end though because he was a nice guy, just annoying. And he was from Pinckney, another reason to root for him. One of the funniest moments was James analogy of the situation from the final episode-Eric was drowning off the side of the boat when he got the lifevest he needed to survive. Then he threw it back into the boat.

I can't believe Parvarti won! I think everyone thought it would be Amanda, or at least I did. It seemed Parvarti did too because she looked absolutely shocked in the finale. Amanda has never been one of my real favorites, but I did want to see her win this time. Was anyone else surprised? Maybe when I see the few missing episodes I will get a little insight.

Oh how I love Survivor-this season would have been completely perfect if Yao-Man had stayed a little longer. Can't wait for next season!