The Amazing Race: Chad & Stephanie Are Now Married & Having A Baby

Yikes. Just a couple weeks ago we saw Chad get down on his knees, in Oman, and propose to Stephanie on The Amazing Race.

That morning started with the pair oversleeping by a couple hours in Russia. At least, we assumed they were sleeping, due to the snoring sound effects.

Chad & Stephanie had been dating only 5 months when they teamed up on The Amazing Race.

Chad is a 26 year old Fort Lauderdale operations manager, whatever that is. While Stephanie is a 23 year old hair stylist.

Chad & Stephanie were eliminated from The Amazing Race and have since gotten married and are going to have a baby, due in June.

The couple had planned to get married in March of 2011, but, after Stephanie found out she was 3 months pregnant, that plan was aborted and the marriage date was moved forward, taking place at a friend's house in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Maybe if Chad & Stephanie have a second baby they can be on the next Amazing Race: Family Edition.

The Amazing Race Season 17 Episode 9: Double U-Turns Send Chad & Stephanie From First to Last & Eliminated from the Race

Yet one more entertaining leg of the most entertaining season of The Amazing Race in a long, long time.

This week, Chad & Stephanie, who had a euphoric week last week, getting engaged and coming in first, got U-Turned last night, coming in last to the Pit Stop, with Phil Eliminating the couple.

First to leave the previous Pit Stop, Chad & Stephanie read the clue telling them to fly to Dhaka, Bangladesh, the most densely populated city in the world.

In Dhaka teams had to find a sugar cane press and produce a glass of sugar cane juice. First at the airport, Chad & Stephanie found a Jet Airways flight that got to Dhaka at noon the next day. Jill & Thomas and Nick & Vicki soon booked the same flight.

Chad & Stephanie then proceeded to gorge on fast food, while Jill & Thomas worked an agent to get a better flight. Eventually the agent found a flight that got  them into Dhaka 7 hours earlier. Brook & Claire saw Jill & Thomas doing a happy dance, so they accosted the same agent, to no avail.

While Chad & Stephanie continued to pig out, Brook & Claire told Nick & Vicki that Jill & Thomas now had a 7 hour lead. This sent the pairs off to try and find a better flight, with Nick & Vicki successful at getting on a plane that would land in Dhaka at 8:40am.

Brook & Claire were stuck landing at noon with Chad & Stephanie. Along with Nat & Kat who took a more circuitous route to Dhaka.

After Jill & Thomas cranked out the sugar cane juice the next clue was a Detour. Balanced Meal or Balanced Bricks. Jill & Thomas opted out for bricks and a wild rickshaw ride. Balancing bricks in a basket on their head, the pair delivered the 100 bricks and got their next clue.

While Chad & Stephanie, Brook & Claire and Nat & Kat were en route from Mumbai to Dhaka, Jill & Thomas arrived at the Double U-Turn. Without much debate, Jill & Thomas U-Turned Brook & Claire, forcing them to do both detour tasks.

As Nick & Vicki were arriving in Dhaka, Jill & Thomas were at a Roadblock in Nazira Bazaar where one team member had to piece together a rickshaw. Again, Jill did the Roadblock. Thomas does not seem to like to do the manly things, like scale down cliffs and build things.

Jill put together the rickshaw and got the clue sending them to the Pit Stop where they got a $15,000 gift card from Discover.

Nick & Vicki arrived at the U-Turn after completing the Balanced Meal Detour option of delivering food to dockworkers. Nick wanted to U-Turn Nat & Kat, Vicki did not. Vicki won the argument with Nick saying she was too nice. When they came in 2nd at the Pit Stop Vicki remarked that being nice pays off.

The final 3 teams were in dead heat mode through the sugar cane press. All three opted to deliver meals, with Chad & Stephanie's rickshaw driver getting lost.

Nat & Kat made it first to the U-Turn and U-Turned Chad & Stephanie, sealing their fate.

Chad & Stephanie had all sorts of woes trying to completing the food delivery Detour. When they finally made it to the U-Turn Chad was all happy to see Brook & Claire U-Turned, then he saw that he and Stephanie had also been U-Turned.

The pair got the bricks delivered, and then made it to the rickshaw assembly spot to see Claire still working on it, while Nat & Kat were on their way to a 3rd place finish.

Stephanie and Claire were in a race to get the rickshaw built. Claire finished hers with Stephanie seconds behind. The teams were now in race to find Lalagh Fort, as darkness fell on the city. Brook & Claire got to the Pit Stop first, with Brook whining to Phil that they'd been U-Turned by a man, prompting Phil to say, "Don't even pretend you guys aren't a threat."

Then Chad & Stephanie showed up, taking the bad news well. The end of another good episode of The Amazing Race.

And might I add. I HATE the U-Turn gimmick. I have HATED it ever since it was introduced. I double HATE a Double U-Turn. The Amazing Race needs to lose the U-Turn.

The Amazing Race: Season 17: Episode: Gary & Mallory Eliminated While Chad & Stephanie Come In First With Marriage Proposal

Gary & Mallory had themselves a real difficult time finding their way around the Sultanate Of Oman, looking for Jabel Shams, the tallest mountain in the Sultanate. The troubles with finding the mountain led to Phil eliminating the pleasant dad and daughter team from The Amazing Race.

This leg of the race started off real rough for Chad & Stephanie, with the pair oversleeping, by precisely 2 hours, their departure time.

The other teams were on 2 other flights to Muscat, Oman, but somehow Chad & Stephanie managed to find a flight that got them to the Sultanate only 10 minutes behind the second flight, which greatly perplexed those teams, who thought Chad & Stephanie were far behind them.

Upon arrival in Oman teams had to find Burj Al Mubkaharah for an Omani to give them an ingot with a time inscribed on it, which indicated their time to climb the steps to the top of a fort to find their next clue.

Nat & Kat and Brook & Claire were the first to the ingots. They were followed in a tight taxi race by Chad & Stephanie, Jill & Thomas, Nick & Vicki and Gary & Mallory.

Jill & Thomas made it to the fort ahead of the others and snagged the 7:45 climb time. The remaining 3 teams had trouble finding the man and his ingots. With Chad eventually spotting the man and snagging another 7:45 start time.

Early in the morning, as they waited for the fort to open, Chad & Stephanie took walk along the Arabian Sea. Chad got down on bended knee and proposed to Stephanie, now in tears, as she accepted a ring from Chad. A ring which was Chad's mother's, who passed away during Chad's freshman college year. The other teams watched the proposal from afar and congratulated the newly engaged pair upon their return to the group.

Nat & Kat and Brook & Claire, at 7:30, ran up the stairs of the fort to find a clue directing them to find Jabel Shams, the tallest mountain in Oman. All the teams, except for Nat & Kat and Gary & Mallory relied on asking locals for directions to the mountain. Nat & Kat and Gary & Mallory relied on a map, which put them both far in back of the pack as they got lost, with both eventually abandoning the maps to ask locals for help finding the mountain.

Chad & Stephanie were first to the base of the mountain, where they found a man who took over driving, due to the mountain roads being steep and treacherous. At the top of the mountain the cluebox revealed a Roadblock. One team member had to rappel down a 500 foot high cliff to a narrow ledge where they had to look through 100s of Aladdin-type lamps, looking for Aladdin's magic ring to get their next clue.

Chad took this one for the team. Soon, Jill & Thomas showed up, with Thomas wimping out, making his girl friend rappel down the mountain. Chad found a ring and got his next clue. Drive to the town of Nizwa and find a giant stack of books.

Nick & Vicki and Brook & Claire arrived at the mountain at about the same time. Nick, who had been a bit of a boy bitch at Vicki, because Vicki had helped Brook & Claire, joined Thomas on wimping out on the rappelling. Claire was the brave girl on her team.

Vicki aced flying down the mountain, saying she felt like Spiderman. Then corrected that to Spiderwoman.

Back on the road, ahead of Brook & Claire, Nick was quite upset to find they had a flat tire. And to see Brook & Claire pass them by on the way to the stack of books.

Chad & Stephanie made it to the books just ahead of Jill & Thomas. The clue was a Detour. Water Table or Wedding Table. No one choose Wedding Table, so I'll forego describing it, except to say it involved 25 chickens. In Water Table teams had to pump some water and find their way to where it needed to be delivered.

Chad & Stephanie were ahead, but Jill & Thomas caught a break when they accidented upon a man whose cousin's house was where they needed to make the water delivery. This put them well ahead of Chad & Stephanie.

After the water delivery, the clue directed Jill & Thomas to a market in Muscat called Muttrah Souq to find a guy who would give them some smoking frankincense and then look all over the market for Ali Baba to get the Pit Stop clue.

While Brook & Claire and Nick & Vicki worked the water, Nat & Kat finally made it to the mountain. Kat did the task due to Nat being terrified of heights. Kat completed the task and the pair was back on their way to the stack of books, when Gary & Mallory showed up. Seeing Nat & Kat made Gary & Mallory a bit optimistic that they might still be in the race.

Mallory zipped down the mountain. What a perky girl.

Jill & Thomas found Ali Baba first, with the clue directing them to the Pit Stop at Al Alam Palace. On the way to the Pit Stop, Jill & Thomas broke a rule by paying a taxi driver to lead them. They arrived at the mat first, to be told by Phil they had incurred a 30 minute penalty. Which had Chad & Stephanie in 1st place when they arrived shortly thereafter.

Did Chad & Stephanie have a good leg of the race, or what? From last to first, starting out from a 2 hour hole, a marriage proposal and first place with a trip for two to Belize.

Nick & Vicki found Ali Baba and beat Brook & Clair for 3rd place, which put the shopping show hosts at 4th, followed by Nat & Kat, with Gary & Mallory, last, and eliminated.

This make 4 excellent episodes of The Amazing Race in a row. And didn't Oman look like a fun place to visit. The architecture. The scenery. The people.