The Survivor Gabon Blog..because you're addicted.

So sorry! :(

2009-02-05T09:55:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! I appologize for not keeping up with Survivor this past season. As some of you know (those of you who follow my big brother blog), I got married this past June, then we bought a house in Sept., moved in October, and adopted a Golden Retriever puppy...which is like having a baby on paws. ;-) lol

I've been so busy that I didn't even have the chance to tell ya'll that I had to give up blogging (Survivor and Amazing Race) this past year.

With that being said, I think I will stick with Big Brother blogging (July-Sept) every year. If I ever get the urge to blog about Survivor, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will come back here!

Thanks for the love & support!
XOXOXO,
Jamie

Update:

2008-11-04T04:53:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!! :-D Just a quick note to let ya'll know that I will be blogging again starting Monday November 10th. I'll do a catch-up quickie post and then a current post. I'm still a little too overwhlemed with the new house & my birthday is on Sunday, so I'll be back on Monday!

See ya'll then!!
XOXO,
Jamie

Stay tuned...

Episode #4

2008-10-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! As ya'll know, I'm in the process of moving and blogging about Survivor (and The Amazing Race) has become too much for me to take on for the next couple of weeks. I'll have to wait until we're settled in our new house before picking up blogging again. :(

If you miss(ed) an episode, go to:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/video/ to watch FULL EPISODES!!

I'll be back in a couple of weeks! :-D

Stay tuned...

Episode #3:

2008-10-10T21:02:00.000-07:00

Okay, last night's episode was just "okay" for me. Wasn't everything that I thought it would be. Ya ya, we all saw the preview/teaser clip of a twist, but it still wasn't AS exciting as I thought it would be.

With that being said, here's the Episode 3 post:

This weeks episode started by Randy, once again, telling his tribe to chill out on eating so much rice because their supply is running very low. Ken told him "Don't worry". I think Randy is the only one that is (rightfully) concerned about their rice supply dwindling so fast.

Both teams made their way to the beach where Jeff was and they each got a pad & pen and had to rank their team members on who was most important..and who was the least of importance to their tribe.

Marcus was #1 for Kota and Matty was #1 for Fang.

And the moment we've all been waiting for...the TWIST!!!

The guys that were the highest rank players for their tribes now had to pick NEW teammates.

Here's the NEW tribes:

KOTA: Marcus, Dan, Charlie, Randy, Corrine, Suzie. (YELLOW)

FANG: Matty, Ace, Crystal, Jacque, Ken, Kelly, GC. (RED)

Since Sugar wasn't picked, she had to go to exile island...

...and stay there until AFTER tribal was over and whichever team voted a player out, she would automatically go to that team.

Back at camp, the new tribes settled in and bonded/talked. Kelly, who was an outcast in her old tribe, was very comfy with her new tribe (Fang) thanks to Ken for talking to her and being friendly with her...he said he's using her for a vote.

At the Kota camp, Marcus was going back & forth between who he might want to see gone. He said that Suzie does alot at camp (work wise) and Randy doesn't. Marcus then went on to say that he'll have to see how well Randy performs in the challenges first.

Time for the Immunity Challenge!

The teams had to kneel in floating tubes and basically play water-lacrosse. The first tribe to score 3 points, wins immunity.

Kota just flat out killed Fang in that competition. Hands down! So Kota won immunity and Fang had to go to tribal. This also means that Sugar will be joining the Fang tribe after tribal.

After Fang got back to camp, GC started talking to Crystal & Ken about getting Kelly out...

...but they saw this as a potential problem if Sugar has the hidden idol (which she does, she found it last week).

If they try to get Kelly out, Sugar could use the idol to save her and then it'd be Ace/Sugar/Kelly against the rest of the tribe. Matty said he was willing to risk it but GC/Crystal/Ken said they weren't and they should all just get out Jacque instead. Matty was not happy to hear this but told them that it was "cool".

Matty then went straight to Jacque and told her everything.

Then Jacque went to Ken and brought up what she heard about her name being thrown around. After the talk, Ken (told the camera) that he hasn't made up his mind yet on who he wanted to see go home. Jacque then went to Crystal and cried to her about how she doesn't wanna leave, etc etc. So now at this point, Crystal didn't want to see her leave.

Time for Tribal!

Votes were 4-2...

Eliminated from Survivor is:

Jacuqe

So now that Jacque is gone, Sugar will join them back at camp and next week they will duke it out once again. :)

If you missed the episode and you want more than just my recap of this episode, feel free to watch it for yourself:

Watch Episode 3 on CBS.com

See ya'll next Friday!! :-D

Stay tuned...

Tonight is Episode #3!!

2008-10-09T14:13:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone & Happy Thursday/Surivor Day!! :-D

As ya'll know, I post a full blog post the day after it airs on CBS, but ya'll are more than welcomed to use the chat room tonight and EVERY SURVIVOR NIGHT right here on the blog!!! If I have the time, I'll pop in and say hello, too!

Tonight we will see a major twist in the game (see post below for video) and it'll really shake up the game..and so early into the season! It'll be interesting to see what all happens.

The show starts at 8pm EST, see ya then!!

Stay tuned...

Episode #3 Preview: There's a TWIST!!

2008-10-07T20:23:00.000-07:00

Hey guys & dolls!! :-D Hopefully ya'll are doing well. I haven't been doing as much updating as I would like to because I've been packing and getting me & the hubby ready to move on Oct. 25th into our first house. So please bear with me for next month. :)

Okay, I ran across this video on YouTube about a preview for this Thursday nights episode..and there's a NEW TWIST!!!! :-O

Che che check it out!!!

What do ya'll think of this?? I think Survivor is becoming more & more like Big Brother with each episode. lol I dunno, maybe it's just me.

Leave your thoughts & opinions below in a comment! :-D

Stay tuned...

Episode #2:

2008-10-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! :-D I'm finding it easier to watch Survivor on CBS.com instead of when it airs just because it's easier for me to pause & blog and take screenshots of different things. So from now on, all my Survivor blog posts will be the day AFTER it airs, but feel free to come here on Thursday nights to chat in the Chat Room (on the right side) with other Survivor lovers!!

Okay, here is the cliffnotes on Episode #2:

Randy still doesn't like his tribe (FANG) and was complaining about how they are "a bunch of idiots" (hmm..sounds familiar from last weeks episode.)

Fang is running very low on rice due to their 3 meals per day and Randy brought this to everyones attention and suggested that they eat only 2 meals per day. GC became a smart ass and asked Randy if he would like to be the leader of their tribe..to which Randy said no.

Rewards Challenge:
A member from each tribe had to sit on the ground and hang on tight to a post as 3 tribe members from the opposite tribes tried to get them off the post and drag them across the finish line first.

Fang won and they received blankets and had to pick which member of Kota was going to go to exile island and they choose "Sugar" to go.

When she arrived at exile, she had the choice between comfort (a gazebo with a lantern and blankets, etc) or she could try to find the hidden idol. She chose to try to find the idol.

And her hard work paid off because she FOUND THE IDOL!! :-D

Back at camp, the Kota tribe was talking about how they want Paloma or Sugar out next.

Ace & Sugar are in an alliance to the end, so any talk of getting rid of Sugar, he turned back onto getting Paloma out. He did more harm than good though because now his tribe can see that they are in an alliance together.

Immunity Challenge:
Both tribes had to slip n' slide into the water and swim out to grab tiles floating in the water and bring them back on land to figure out the combination of a treasure chest that had the axe they needed to get their flag to raise up. First one to do this, wins.

It was a very close race and the winning tribe was...

FANG

Ace & Sugar took a short ride in the row boat to discuss her trip to exile island and she told Ace that she found the idol.

Kota went to tribal and...

3rd Person Voted Out is:

Paloma

There were a few votes for Ace, but the majority (obviously) was for Paloma.

That's it for this week, folks! :-D Join me next week for Episode #3!!

Stay tuned...

Marcus shows more than a little skin:

2008-09-29T12:42:00.000-07:00

The censors at CBS must have been snoozing on the job, because they let a short clip of Marcus' penis popping through his boxers air on television!

When I was watching the episode on tv, I could have sworn I saw his 'buddy' flip-flopping around, but I thought nawww it's just my imagination or something. Turns out, what I saw was real! lol ;-)

Wonder how long CBS.com will keep the episode on the website!

Stay tuned...

Episode 1 is on now on CBS.com

2008-09-25T23:57:00.001-07:00

Did you miss Survivor's first episode? No problem! :)

Just click here to go to CBS.com and watch it in HD!! What is HD? It's High Definition. That means that the picture quality is unbelievable!!

I don't have any HD tv's so I wasn't able to enjoy the HD quality, but the video on CBS.com is in HD.

Che che check it out!! :-D
Go to CBS.com to watch Episode #1!

Stay tuned...

Survivor: Episode 1

2008-09-25T16:15:00.000-07:00

Okay, so what did ya'll think of tonight's 2 hour show? I thought it was really good, BUT...really slow moving. I don't know, we'll have to see what the rest of the season is like before making a good judgment call.

Okay, so about tonight's episode:

The cast introduced themselves 1 by 1. The cast looks freakin GREAT!!! A very nice & diverse cast, reminds me of the type of great casts from back in the first few years of Survivor. :)

After their intro's, the picked teams and then they went straight into their 1st challenge.

Here are the tribes:

(By the way, "Fang" is pronounced like "Fohng".)

The challenge was to run a really long distance and climb up a huge hill (in which I totally would have had a fat-attack!! lol) ;-P

Winning Team of 1st Challenge:

Kota

They won some corn, beans & rice.

Gillian was slow moving up the hill, and so was Crystal, which surprised me given that she's been in the Olympics.

Matty: "Gillian is gonna be a huge load to carry [in the game]."

Back at camp, Gillian was telling her team how good they were and just keeping everything on a positive note. Well, that kinda backfired on her because Randy thought she was more annoying than "positive".

Charlie & Marcus formed the very first alliance of the season: "The Large Onion Alliance". Marcus said that he looks at his alliance like a big onion and that they have to keep adding "layers" (tribe members) to their alliance (or onion, if you will.) But the "core" of the onion..er..alliance...is Marcus & Charlie.

Did ya get all of that? Good. Moving on...

Randy busted his head open when he walked into a branch on their hut and medical aid had to come in to stitch him up and wrap a big bandage around his head.

The next morning, Michelle was complaining about how cold she was and that the night was really cold. This annoyed alot of her tribe members...which are "stupid dorks" according to Michelle.

Challenge #2:
6 members tied together race through leech infested waters, then over/under a series of walls & posts. They have to dig up 3 bags of puzzle pieces, solve puzzles. First tribe to do the puzzle, wins immunity & fire (in the form of flint). Losers will go to tribal and someone will be voted out.

Challenge starts, Kota finds all 3 bags first. Fang looked like they gave up. Gillian kept yelling at them to "keep going" and to stay positive, but they
gave up.

Winning Team:

Kota

Randy didn't want Gillian around anymore and started to "plant the seed" of getting rid of her. Michelle & Ken also wanted Gillian out. So at this point, it looked as if Gillian was gonna go home.

Tribal:
At tribal, Michelle was bitching about GC being one of the main reasons they lost because he took a break. GC apologized and Michelle got catty, and everybody
ganged up on Michelle and started an argument.

First Survivor Eliminated:
Michelle

Jeff asked who the leader was in FANG and they said "nobody" and somehow it got turned into everybody voting for GC to be the leader, against GC's wishes.

Jeff gave them flint to take back to camp.

The next day, there was a little bit of friction between Randy & GC when GC asked Randy if he would could take over & get the water to boil. Randy thinks that GC is too young to be the tribe leader and he'll let GC crash & burn for other to see it.

Marcus & Charlie added "layers to their onion" (so to speak) and formed the alliance of:

Corrine/Jacque/Charlie/Marcus

Early the next morning, GC started a fire and was doing some laundry when it was still dark out (super early in the morning). Everybody else, one by one,
woke up. Gillian was not happy and an argument started between her and GC. This is when GC quit his job as a leader.

GC: "I don't wanna be ya'lls leader and I'm going to be the leader just because you guys want me to be. Hell, I'm younger than all ya'll!"

Challenge #3:
For immunity & reward (fishing supplies).

Winning Team:

Kota

They also got to send 1 of the other tribes members to exile island and Dan was the one they picked. Dan went and didn't find the hidden idol.

Even though Fang lost and didn't get to receive any fishing supplies, they were still able to make a fishing pole and snag up 5 (small) fish.

Tribal:
2nd person to leave Survivor:

Gillian

And this concludes your very first Survivor blog post!! :-D

Leave a comment below letting me know what you thought of tonight's episode!! Did you miss an episode? Go to CBS.com tomorrow and watch the first episode or come back here to the blog (I'll post the link to the episode).

Stay tuned...

Survivor starts TONIGHT:-D

2008-09-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!! Well, tonight is the night that Survivor starts! :-D

I just wanted to make a quick post to let ya'll know that I will be here about 30 minutes prior to the show starting on CBS.

So have your snacks ready and pull up a chair tonight as I blog about the very first episode of Surivor: Gabon!!

Stay tuned...

Meet the cast of Surivor:

2008-09-16T16:03:00.001-07:00

Here they are, ladies & gents!!! :-D

If you want to see each of their videos to see what they're like, go to http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/video/ and check'em out!

From watching all of thier individual videos, here's my impressions/opinions:

Crystal already sounds very full of herself.

Jaque is a work-a-holic, working 80 hours a week. She's also very flirtatious by nature but will try not to be with the guys. She doesn't want the other girls to get jealous and then target her.

Gillian...I have a feeling that I'm gonna love this girl! :-D She seems like she could be a pistol! ;-)

Paloma seems like the sweet girl of the cast. Down to earth and sweet.

Danny "GC" had a touch childhood and it made him into a real world survivor. He's gonna be a tough one in the game for sure!

Michelle is a boxer who has an aggressive attitude when it comes to verbal fights, and she also claims to be a "genius" but doesn't really sound that smart.

Kelly seems like she's going to be one tough cookie, hidden behind her blonde hair & blue eyes.

Jessica (aka "Sugar) is already one of my favorites. She said that she's going to miss her "Sex, drugs, and rock n'roll". lol She got the nickname "Sugar" from working in a 50's diner and has used that at every 50's diner she's worked at.

Ace is arrogant and said it himself, but as he put it..he's "earned it".

Ken is a...okay, let's face it: Ken is a dork. lol But a loveable dork! He's a professional gamer which he thinks will come in handy in the game..he'll be able to play mind games.

Charlie. Ohhh, Charlie. I think I'm gonna love this guy fresh outta the gate!! lol His personality is addicting (so far), and claims to not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Matty is your typical party guy who likes to sleep with women.

Bob is very mentally "strong". He'll be great in the puzzle competitions for sure! But being that he's 58 yr old, I think he might fall a little short on the physical comps.

Dan seems like he could run the whole show this year, but not in a bad way. He looks physically strong, very nice & likeable, he says that he's "intuitive" (which will come in handy for sure). I'm predicting that this guy will get far in the game if he's everything he claims to be & seems to be. :-D

Corinne is the "bitch" of the season but doesn't plan on showing the bitch side of her to everybody else..only to the cameras.

Randy is the comedian of the group.

Susie is the mother of the season. Oh, she also burps & farts and doesn't care. lol Right on, Susie!!

If one thing is ringing true this season, it's that the cast is VERY diverse in every possible way and I love that!!! :-D Should be another great season of Survivor!!

I'm totally diggin the fact that they're in Africa, looks beautiful!!

The season starts next week & I can't wait! :-D

Stay tuned...

Welcome to The Survivor Blog!!!

2008-09-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Hey guys & dolls!! :-D

Please pardon "the dust" as this page is still slightly under construction, but pull up a chair and get comfy because this is where I will be blogging about Survivor Gabon!!

This season of Survivor will start on:

Thursday: Sept. 25th

In the meantime, I will be working on the blog to make it interactive, fun, and filled with as much info as I can get my little paws on. ;-)

Stay tuned...