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Originally posted by ajuhdg
Somebody! Anybody! Please tell me what happened tonight! My 'Child Birth Education' classes just started today, and I totally missed it! I don't know if I should continue with them, since they're on Thursday nights! LOL!

aj

This is why I set my VCR to record, because usually I'm at bible study when Survivor is on...

To begin with, the six outcasts came back in, and Jeff talked with them and had each of them say why they should be voted back into the game. When it came time to vote, the outcasts voted for two members that they wanted to go back into the game, besides themselves. When the votes were tallied, Burton and Lil were voted back into the game, and the other four left the area again immediately. Then, to decide which tribe they would go to, one of them would step up and draw a buff out of a tube and that determined where they went. Lil volunteered, and drew the orange buff, so she went back to Morgan, while Burton went back to Drake. They each went back that night to the camp, and Lil was met at the boat by the other Morgan tribe members (who couldn't tell who it was for a minute), and Burton woke up the Drake members and let them see he was back.

The next morning, Rupert pulled Burton aside and explained why he voted Burton off in the first place, and after their discussion, they seemed to be back on good footing with one another. Lil and Savage were talking around the fire, and he kept saying how it was such a shock and not fair that people were let back in.

The two tribes met at the beach for an immunity challenge. Jeff asked about the food situation, and after Sandra got done saying what all the tribe had to eat the night before, he asked Savage about their food (which they were completely out of food, having just finished the last of their rice that morning). Savage made mention about not knowing when a merge would come with the big banquet, and Jeff asked Tijuana about a merge and she said that they have no clue when a merge is coming, they're not expecting it, etc. Well, Jeff tells them that there will be a merge today and tells them to take their old buffs off and gives them their new buffs (black). The immunity challenge was "Pirate Punishment", where the castaways had to swim under a long plank that had a cut out in the middle (if the castaway came up in that cutout, they had to start all over), climb up a ladder, cross the plank without falling in, jump back in, and repeat. They ran two heats of five castaways each, with the first two finishers moving on to the finals. In the first heat, Jon and Rupert were the top two, in the second heat, Burton and Ryan O were the top two. In the finals, they had to do this process five times, but while they were crossing the plank before jumping into the water again, they had to grab one medalion each time and transfer it from one end to the other, and once they had completed their five times and the medallion transfer, they had to jump into the water. It was a close race between Rupert and Burton at the end, and Burton just squeaked out the win over Rupert. Jeff told him that since he already had immunity from coming back into the game, he had the option of bestowing immunity on another player, and he had the rest of the day to think about it. The tribes returned to Drake's beach, where a feast waited for them, and they decided on the tribe name of Balboa.

After eating, the members of Morgan and Drake began strategizing who they'd vote for. Morgan members decided to go after Jon, while Drake thought about voting off Savage. Burton talked to Lil that the Drake members wanted her to vote with them, that they liked her and wanted to include her in their voting strategy. Savage came up to Lil and asked her to vote with Morgan, and she said she didn't know, and wouldn't know for a while. When he asked if she'd let him know before going to tribal council, Lil told Savage that she asked him to do the same the night she was voted out, and he never got back to her.

At tribal council, Burton elected to give immunity to Rupert, which left Lil, Burton and Rupert safe from the vote. After each vote was cast, Jeff read them off: Andrew, Savage, Savage, Andrew, Andrew, Jon, Jon, Jon, Jon.......Andrew.

Now, having said all that, I am SO that the Drakes didn't get rid of Jon! He is annoying and the biggest a-hole in the entire world. When he was casting his vote against Savage, he talked in his taunting voice, and I was about ready to throw something through the TV (but then I couldn't watch it ) and then as Jeff was reading the votes, Jon got the biggest smirk on his face as all the Andrew votes were read, but then when more and more Jon votes were coming out, you could see he was getting really nervous!

Really hoping that next week will finally be the week that Jon is gone from the game....but that means he's sitting on the jury