Back to Back!

Back to back Bachelorette posts! Really that just means I haven't posted in a week. Well, sorry I was busy having a fantastic weekend with the family down in Austin. More on that later...

But here we are... another Monday. So of course my girlfriend Dirty E came over again and we whipped up (read: "we" as "mostly she") a delicious pasta dish with veggies and watched good'ol Emily try and find her a hubby.

I took two pages of notes, here they go...

Ryan is flat creepy. He has the voice of a pedophile. Yep, he does. The wife-beater shirt he had on early in the episode did not help that image either.

Now Travis, this guy is a sweetheart. He was a big manly-man that I thought Emily would really be into, but alas, no rose for him on the one on one date. I felt so bad for him when he said something like, "my heart is this big..." and held his hands far apart. He will make some gal happy one day.

The group date was interesting. I get the whole movie thing, the plot matching Emily's life, her liking stupid movies because she has a young daughter, but despite all that; I thought it was a dumb date. Until the games began! Then the boys put on some tight fitting tops showing their biceps quite well and.... KILTS, gross. And then they had to ride donkeys! My goodness this girl is really going for that whole, "if you can handle me at my worst, then you get me at my best..." mentality huh?

Anyway the games were fun to watch because, really, what girl doesn't love a little competition? Sean dominated and that was great because he is cute. Minus the bleached hair the guy is put together well.

TIME OUT: Why were they wearing kilts and playing Scottish games when they were in Croatia? I never figured that out. Additionally I'll take this aside to say that the jacket Emily was wearing (while the guys were obviously freezing to death in the sleeveless/kilt combo) was pretty fabulous.

Back to the group date...Chris, poor Chris. That man sucks at sports. But I will give him credit for not making excuses and handling it very well. A guy who can laugh at himself is a very secure guy. Arie is cute. He has good hands and seems pretty confident. These are also good things.

The next thing I noted was when Arie and Emily were walking around on their date... when he put her against that wall to kiss her both Dirty E and I gasped. Fantasy land! Tall, dark and handsome man leans you against a wall in a foreign city to kiss you? Yah that is what dreams are made of...

Oh then we go back to Ryan. This guy is the definition of a tool bag guy... also known as a douche bag... also known as a loser who, spoiler alert, GOES HOME.

His facial hair is atrocious. The delicate design that is obviously manicured into it is just ridiculous. His bright blue suede shoes were a joke at best and this guy thinks higher of himself than men twice as good as him should.

With that said, I'll move on to Jef.

Now Jef I'm starting to feel sorry for because I just don't think he has what it takes. And I think he knew that coming in and played this goofy, fun guy. But now after a few rounds, I think he is thinking things might work out for him and Emily. And he is great, the perfect little brother type, or best guy friend kind of person, but I just don't think there are sparks flying in Emily's eyes when they are together. I do like him though.

Chris and Emily walk in at one point together and I just made the comment that they look good together. I don’t know if it is their heights or faces or what but they would look great on a Christmas card together!

The best part of the group date was when Emily gave the rose to Chris and the camera shot was of Arie and one of the other guys watching on. Their expressions were priceless and made that moment of Reality TV not seem as scripted as usual.

OMG. Then we go back to Ryan again. I have so had enough of this guy at this point, but there he was, shaving again. I swear that guy has got to have the smoothest skin on the planet. I think in one episode it showed him shaving three times!

So Ryan and Emily go through their date and while Emily does seem to have a great time she is blatantly annoyed with the revealing of his 12 point check list for his future bride. And when "encouraging and lifts me up" was #3 on the list, before "faithfulness," I think every girl in America was equally as annoyed. So Ryan gets sent home. Even after begging a little he is declared the loser of the evening and makes his exit. At which point he immediately starts in on the taxi cab camera about his biggest hope is that he doesn't appear to be an asshole. Well Ryan, too bad.

So then Arie shows up at Emily's and while as first I thought it was a little bit too much, in the end she seemed to really enjoy it and they looked adorable hanging out in her bed. They seemed much more normal and the conversation again seemed less staged.

So we come to the Rose Ceremony and Emily's dress is awful. She looked like a confetti cupcake, but her earrings were beyond awesome.

Wolf gets a few minutes with Emily and immediately cries after discussing some funeral cards he keeps in his wallet. Now I'm not trying to be insensitive here, but come on. If I was a guy trying to impress a girl, crying would not be my first move, but strangely enough, it seemed to work.

Emily ends up only cutting the guys on the dates. Travis, the nice guy and Ryan the douche.

I don't think I mentioned Doug, who despite his best effort could not ever put a complete sentence together when he was talking to Emily. That guy literally made me feel uncomfortable and I was a world away from the actual conversation.

So she keeps Sean, Arie, Jef, Doug, John (Wolf) and Chris and they are headed to Prague. And it is here that the Arie drama, which has been blowing up the internet, is revealed! Apparently he dated a producer of the show and Emily gets PISSED. Drama drama drama!

Here's to all of that!

xoxo Sara Marie