Survivor Caramoan...How Quick the Tides Change!

This week was the famed Survivor auction.  Just for the record, each tribe member is given $500 to spend at the auction.  You need to be quick and smart about how you use your money.  I won't go into every transaction, I bet you were watching weren't you?  The auction resulted in Malcolm getting to see a clue as to the location of the HII.  Cochran won an advantage in the Immunity Challenge.  Those that saved some cash received letters from home.  Andrea traded her pasta for beans and rice for the whole camp.

So, you would think that since Malcolm has a clue as to where the Idol is hidden, he would actually go get it huh?  Nope.  Andrea is on to him and is following him around camp like his personal puppy.  What I don't get is why he doesn't just keep looking.  Everyone knows he has a clue so why pretend he doesn't?  I bet in hindsight, he realized that!  But, I'm getting ahead of myself.

The Immunity Challenge involves strength, but don't forget that Cochran gets an advantage.  I won't give all the sordid details (yep, lazy today!), but the advantage gives Cochran the win.  It sure is fun to see Cochran doing so well this time out, isn't it?

The tribe is "kinda" still divided between the Favorites and the Three Amigos with Erik running back and forth.  Sherry is approached to return to the fold of the Three Amigos.  Malcolm tells her he has the HII and she should vote with them. When the voting results are in, Jeff asks if anyone wants to play a HII and since no one has one, no one does.  The vote turns out Reynold 3, Malcolm 3 and Andrea 3.  What that means is that those three cannot vote and the rest can only vote for those three.  Since Malcolm didn't use a HII, the tribe pounces on him like a wounded rabbit...and just like that...Malcolm is our third member of the Survivor Jury.

The irrelevant question is....Should Malcolm have kept the HII last week for his own needs?  A second irrelevant question is...Should Malcolm started digging regardless of Andrea watching him?  We will never know and that's the game of Survivor!

Have a great week!  Bloggergal

By the way:

Did you see the color of the water Brenda was drinking?  Ewww.  Doesn't Phillip look 10 times younger without his gray hair?  Did you see them wiping the peanut butter off their hands, etc. and putting it into a bowl.  OMG