2:47 AM. Here go Kris and Jon, who are currently flying the flag of My Favorite Team, despite wearing headlamps. They open the clue, and she -- smiling, of course -- reads that they're supposed to go by bus to Stockholm. Phil says that this will start with a ten-mile drive back to Voss, and then a train and a bus to get to Stockholm. There, they'll find a hotel containing the Icebar (actually the Absolut Icebar, but with no product placement fee, they won't be telling you so), which is, as you might be able to intuit, a bar made entirely of ice. They build a similar palace once a year in my neck of the woods, but I have to admit I've never been seized by the urge to socialize there. From the introductory footage of the Ice Bar, it looks like they have an ice sculpture of a moose or something, which I would make fun of if my neck of the woods weren't also famous for carving women's likenesses in butter. Kris and Jon leave, with him saying they just want to keep going and "stay the course." And "go for the gold." He's going to run out of clichés pretty soon, so he ought to pace himself. Slow and steady wins the race!
2:53 AM. Spazpants. Victoria explains that they do bicker, because Jonathan "has his own way of doing things." She goes on: "It's one of the things that I love about him the most, because he's never boring." Never boring? Neither is putting metal pans in the microwave or dipping your feet in lye, but that doesn't make either of those things a good idea. Besides, he is boring. The notion that being an asshole is inherently fascinating is one of the big myths I'd like to see disappear, in spite of the number of poets and musicians it has apparently inspired to greatness. One domineering prick is often very much like another, and it isn't as if he invented intramarital contempt. Speaking of contempt, in the car, Jonathan refuses to believe that Victoria, as she claims, has heard of the Icebar. She tries to tell him she heard about it from her Swedish friend, but he spits, "Oh, please, Victoria." I would point out that it's hard to be menacing in a shiny electric blue shirt and what appears to be a black bucket hat.













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