Welcome to London!
Emily takes Ricki around London. In boots that were well…shaggy baby. Emily kept saying, “London is so old…so
much history. “ Yes Emily.
I would love to visit London. It looks really cool.
But I would just want to sit and listen to people talk and go back to my
hotel and practice my British accent.
Let’s get to the dates…and get the first one over quickly
since it was boring and we all want to read about the Group Date Incident of
2012. Oh and I want to say that
Emily is sick on most of the dates almost losing her entire voice.
1:1 Date with Sean:
Love Takes No Prisoners
They explore London, Sean makes a speech in the middle of a
park about Love, Emily twirls her
hair while they have dinner, Emily
gives Sean a history lesson on King Henry the 8th, Sean is marriage
material (yes he is) and he gets the rose. And the London Bridges were falling down as they made out in
front of it. Sean it
hot. But I will say I see Sean
with a more crunchy type of girl. Do you agree?
Back at the Hotel:
All the guys who didn’t get 1:1 dates are frustrated. Jef especially. He is the “king of group dates.” But according to Kalon everyday with
Emily will be a group date because of Ricki. Okay…I admit…when he said that it made me laugh. First off, yes he is a dork and a
complete loser…but it’s also funny that Kalon seriously is staying around if he
really feels that way.
Group Date:
Ryan, Arie, Wolf, Ryan, Chris, Doug, Alejandro, Travis, Kalon --- “A Rose by any other name smells just as sweet…”
The guys had no idea what that meant…then little Alejandro
the Mushroom Farmer says, “I think it’s Shakespeare…” hmmm….Alejandro, you are kind of a sexy little treat.
Kalon is NOT happy about being on another group date.
The guys meet Emily at an outdoor park to act out scenes by
Romeo and Juliet. It was actually
very cute. These guys were
hilarious. Kalon took it a little
too seriously. He reminded me of
the dude from Dead Poets Society that committed suicide because his dad
wouldn’t let him be in the play.
Kalon actually shooed Emily away from his rehearsal. He is not fun and Emily thinks he is
way to serious. Ryan was excited
because he got to kiss Emily in his scene. Arie and Doug were the nurses which was so funny. All in all I enjoyed watching the Shakespeare.
Then it was Miller Time! (sorry old 80s reference) they go to a Pub to drink and
chill.
Emily is still ridiculously into Arie and rightly so…they
are purrrfect for each other. She
needs him. He just suits her very well.
Ryan is still into himself…but he wanted to give her a
surprise and gave her a necklace.
He was a little more sweet with her on this date. And she seems to be more smitten with him.
Then it was time to turn up the heat. Not in a romantic way...in a hot seat, pants on fire, West Virginia-style verbal lashing!
Kalon, was not happy on the date. He said he was waiting for “an exhausted sick mother who has a child waiting on her. “
The guys then start talking about what Kalon has been saying about Emily and
her having a daughter. Saying that
basically Ricki is “baggage.” So
the guys confront him. Kalon
admits to saying it and won’t recall it because he says it was not suppose to
be a negative thing, it’s a huge responsibility taking on a child. So Doug was really upset and decided he
needed to talk to Emily about it.
So he tells Emily everything. She talked it
through with Doug. Emily was super
upset but decided she needed to go talk to everyone. Doug mediated the
confrontation. Kalon defended what he said and said he was not meaning it as a negative connotation. Emily said to Kalon, “I love to hear you talk but not until
I’m done.” Ohhhh…snap. Flashback. She told
Kalon that not seeing her daughter as a blessing, “makes me sad for you. “ Especially since Kalon himself was raised by a single mom. She felt talking to him was inappropriate and insulting. She tells him to get out. And he does. Emily ends it by saying, “Kalon is a terrible human being.
“ I think we all agree. Emily was bummed out that no one came
to tell her about it sooner. And
ultimately upset that no one stood up for her when she was yelling at Kalon. So there was no rose tonight. Emily admits her dream guy would fight for her and her
daughter. She was disappointed in
all the guys.
Reflections by Kimberly:
I admit I was a little confused by Emily. I know she was hurt by Kalon and rightly so. But I am not sure why she suddenly became upset with all the guys about not standing up for her. Did she want them to yell at Kalon when she was? Did she want them to yell at him when they first heard him say inappropriate things? Did she want them to tell her ASAP? I think it was all of the above...because she was so hurt and felt so sorry for herself and her daughter in the moment. But in the guy’s defense (NOT Kalon’s because he’s a
loser): Emily was mad no one
was going to tell her about Kalon and felt betrayed. Let’s review season after season of Bachelors and
Bachelorettes. The “rules” on this
show are, if you go to the “Star” and tell them, “so and so is different behind
your back than to your face” ...
in the past "those men and women" who step out and tell on the others have been told they need to “tread lightly, “ “ don’t go there, “ “focus on our relationship not the
other person.” So the guys were
probably very concerned about where they would stand if they become the person
to alert her to issues with the other guys. Happens every season. Goodness, remember Courtney? Remember like 10 different women warning Ben? Sometimes it doesn't matter if you warn someone.
1:1 Date with Jef: We'll just call this Date: The One Where whoever got this date is gonna get a rose because you're not Kalon and were not on the infamous Group Date where no one stood up for Emily!
Let's face it. Jef would have to royally no London pun intended screw up not to get a rose on this date.
Jef walked up to Emily and looked like he was right out of a Oxford University. Looked like a school boy. They went to have tea with an
Etiquette Teacher. So Jef was not happy to have
a 2:1 with Emily and Jean the teacher. I liked Jef more because I agreed that was one
annoying tea date. Thankfully,
they were both annoyed with it and left.
Jef wanted Emily to know that he was the one who sat their
when Kalon said all the stuff about the baggage. He went on and one about what was said. Jef wanted Emily to know that he had
her back. Surprisingly she bought
it. Emily admits she is into
Jef. They went to the London
Eye and had dessert which was kind of cool. Jef said everything right to Emily. And he goes for it and kisses her. I just think them kissing is
gross. He looks so much younger
than her. They look weird
together. But I like him as a
person….so Jef if you’re reading this, it’s not you it’s me. And Jef gets the Rose.
Cocktail Party
Emily is not done with shaming the guys for the whole Kalon
incident. They should have had her
back. She said this week there was
a , “huge lack of respect and loss of
confidence.” Oh come on Emily, get over it!
Travis’s time with Emily was awkward. This guy is cute and funny. But she decided to use the time t to interrogated him about whether he has her
back.
Wolf cracks me up. He is just the type of guy who you can tell puts his foot in his mouth a lot. He admits he might have cheated her by not bringing up
Kalon situation.
Arie’s time with Emily was bad. Emily was upset that Arie didn’t come to her defense and
that she was by herself in that moment with Kalon. Arie said he tries not to get caught up with the others and
focus on them. See I agree with this! That is playing by the regular season rules. So I was upset with Emily for being so mean to Arie. Arie left the
conversation feeling bad. I am going to go get some Team Arie t-shirts made for Rich and I.
Ryan decided to surprise her with something to make her
laugh. So he spoke to her from a
balcony doing a Shakespeare lines. It
wasn’t funny…but she liked it and then they made out because she is starting to
fall for his lines. I think she just was happy he didn't add to the Kalon chaos and tell her he would leave her if she got fat again.
Sean made her feel good too. And Emily really felt if Sean had been on the group date he
would have stood up for her. Um
no. No one would have. Because they didn’t know what to do and
wouldn’t have wanted to make it worse. No one would have handled this whole crazy Kalon situation any differently than what happened! Men have no clue what to do in any situation...especially one involving a woman they like. Goodness I need to become a relationship therapist, providing reality therapy.
Rose Ceremony:
All get roses but…Alejandro…the only guy who knew anything about
Shakespeare and the only man who didn’t really get any air time. And he was starting to grow on me. Oh well.
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