Scout Cloud Lee's Survivor Gabon Blog

About our guest blogger, Scout Cloud Lee

As a contestant on Survivor: Vanuatu, Dr. Scout Cloud Lee made it all the way to the Final Three. The Oklahoman is a professor, cancer survivor, author and inspiring public speaker. She has a doctorate degree in education and was named "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" in 1980 by Oklahoma State University. She also has degrees in counseling and theology.

Shd started The Magical Child Foundation and Vision Us, Inc., carried the torch in the 2002 Olympics and is also a singer/songwriter. Get to know her better at her official web site.

Survivor Gabon/Randy's Gone

THANK GOD AND THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! RANDY'S FINALLY GONE! If ever this game was about churned up grass and dirt and the taste of blood in your mouth, it was tonight. Randy, the most "disgusting, old, hot-headed, chauvinistic, bigoted, scum-sucking troll" is finally long gone from our cozy little campfire. If you don't think there was dancing and celebrating tonight, you are so wrong! You simply can't imagine how great it feels to finally be able to vote out the single most annoying person on the tribe. I am ON MY KNEES grateful! Like Crystal said, "He made our life hell. Go Home! Good Bye! Everything about Randy makes most people want to hurl their cookies! Indeed, Randy, "Desperate times do make desperate measures!" Let's see, Randy...What was that you called yourself? The BOSS? Bye-bye, Boss! So much for "Operation Strong Arm!"

Whew! Now, as soon as we can rid ourselves of Catty Corrine, we'll all be able to return to civility! We all loved seeing the smug look on Corrine and Randy's face fade into disbelief. You can trust me on this: Corrine is having a truly terrible time back at camp now. She is a total outsider that doesn't have the chance of a snowball in hell. She deserves to suffer a little longer for her smart ass, cocky, arrogant, know-it-all comments about everyone. Next week, bye-bye Corrine. Oh, by-the-way, what was that that Corrine said about "pay back"?

It was a joy to see Marcus and Charlie truly enjoying the demise of Rotten Randy.

Those were two good guys that I wish could have had a longer ride in this game.

Sugar totally Rules and Rocks! In fact, Sugar for President! I'm now firmly pulling for this girlfriend to win this game. I don't see a way that it can happen, but I do believe in miracles! Did we love it when she grabbed Randy's cookie and gave it to Mattie. Endearing! I'm hoping she can play that idol all the way into the final three. She a smart cookie to realize that Mattie is trying to take control. Sugar appears to be without a firm alliance, but is so much in charge of this game. She is playing this game like no-one ever has before. In her own seductive way she is playing real hard ball, while looking like she's playing patty cake, patty cake. I just love her! While everyone else is bugling up the hill in full tilt "Charge!", Sugar is dangling her tootsies in a babbling brook and beating the holy crap outta' everyone. Slick!

Bob is another favorite of mine. He's just an all out great man. He has the ability to win immunities. Now would be the time to start doing it! His fake idol has now become the most famous idol in Survivor history. I bet that puppy brings a whopping amount on eBay!

I can't help but notice the big pouting lips of Crystal. To be an Olympic athlete, she is a minor league player in the physical game. Susie is a little tuffy who slaves around camp and is making a definite bit to get herself into that final three. I wonder if she could have lounged around in that tub for hours? Probably not....not to mention that Susie doesn't impress me as a person who luxuriates very much.

Survivor is definitely an eat or be eaten, beat or be beaten kind of game. It's rough and tumble and muscle and sinew! It's keep your back against the wall or someone gets you from behind. There's nothing gentle about it and there's no time for tea. For this reason, I'm banking on Mattie and Kenny to continue to win immunities and march their way right into the final three.

Scout Cloud Lee

Survivor Gabon/Pre Merge

SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE! Forget about the fact that two of the games strongest players got blind-sided at Tribal. Just fall to your knees and hail the Goddess Sugar! This season is all about Sugar and the Sugar Shack. This is one S M A R T Cookie! Someone needed to spackle Ace's mouth shut from the very moment he professed to "have Sugar in his Paaawket"! Now Ace can jive and joke with GC back at Loser's camp, while Madame Sugar prances her Pin Up Self right onto the jury. I personally love blind-sides the best.

Sweet Danny Boy really just wanted to have some friends. He may not have been blind-sided at Tribal, but I was. I thought for certain Ms. Susie would bite the dust. She must be working her tail off at camp because we don't see much of her in the game. She'll probably make it to the final six now because Koda will just pick off the four remaining Fang cast mates. Of course, If Matty, Ken, Crystal, and Sugar hooked up with Susie and Bob, they could pick off the four pack (Marcus, Charlie, Randy, and Corrine).

You just never know about game. Mad Mattie may just have to suck up to that "worthless little pin up model" Sugar if he wants to get further in this game.

I had to get out my hanky when the letters from home arrived. Bob really got my heart. He's an amazing athlete for an older guy, and especially one who appears to be anorexic! The ole' boy is tough enough to kiss cactus! I bet it hurts his skinny little bones when he crash lands on those long dives. Of course, wouldn't you know it would be Our Sugar who whipped his butt on the log roll. I always cringe when I hear someone bragging, cuz' I know they're just about to crash land. So endeth the "Champion Log Roller," Bob!

As for Randy, errors have been made! Surely God didn't mean to make ticks, mosquitoes, large seeds in avocados, and Randy! While we have the spackle out, let's spackle Randy's mouth shut too, before the rest of his Neanderthal intelligence escapes! Now it looks like we must endure him being "The King of Gabon." Oh dear!

I haven't bragged enough on the amazing scenery in Gabon. The wild life is stunning, the crater picnic breath-taking, and the helicopter ride amazing. Hopefully we'll get to see some of the local color and culture after the merge.

What, pray tell, was the big friggin' deal about spilling a little rice! When you're tired and hungry, it's easy to make mountains outta' mole hills. I admired Crystal for abstaining from eating, since she spilled the rice. The girlfriend is so real! I don't know how she can make it much further in the game, but I do love her spunk.

Marcus won individual immunity. This might well be an omen for this steady, strategic player. I'm still pulling for him to win it all, although Sugar would be the upset of the century. It was interesting to see Koda at Tribal. We actually get to know people the very best from the Tribal interviews with Jeff. Just for interest sake, those Tribals usually last about 2-3 hours. A lot gets cut and a lot is revealed.

Would someone please tell Jeff Probst that he looks like a total dork in that cap.

Pleeeeaaaassseee, Jeff!

Scout Cloud Lee

Survivor Gabon/Episode Five

PEEVED IN PODUNK! Ho Hum. Kelly went home, leaving our Podunk Fang tribe only five strong and shrinking. But Kelly didn't leave without a good "Come to Jesus Tongue Lashing" from Crystal! In Kelly's abbreviated world she got the OMG, now GTFOH! The best part of having Kelly on this show was to get Crystal PEEVED enough to give a durn good speech about the passion of winning and losing. I personally loved Crystal's passion and agree that crying is not always a weakness. I also agree with her assessment of Ace. There jest ain't no "pros" on a losing team. If a player ain't got no end game, he ain't got no game at all! That's how we Seeeeeeesters see it!

Fang seems to have bottomless stupidity and lack of Team Skills. However, they sure are getting a lot of air time! This season may well be a case of being popular for being the worst Tribe in survivor history.

Ace is way too dedicated to the shape of his grossly over-sized ego! Sugar may look like the dumb bimbo, but she's dumb like a fox. Predictability is a great strategy...same, same, same,...then change! I keep expecting this blonde bomb shell to pull a fast one on The Ace! Wouldn't that be sweet! She get all the kudos for "giving the idol to Mr. Macho Machismo Machine" and yet she has it back. Cute. She just giggles and skips her way through everything, all the while juggling the silly immunity idol. I think revenge just might be just below the surface of this seeming shallow Sugar. Did anyone notice that Sugar didn't get any sugar when she returned from Exile Island. It's getting to be old hat with everyone. I would like Sugar to know one thing: Feeling guilty is a perfectly useless thing. especially about getting to eat while being banished to Exile Island.

Crystal is probably next to go from Fang. She has no real alliance and she does tend to get in funk and then have to dig her way out. The Mattie, Kenny, Ace and Sugar alliance looks really strong to me. Mattie got my heart with his pledge to his girlfriend, Jamie. I do believe that he'll stick with his promise, at least to the merge.

Kota is riding high and well they should be. They have managed to pull off true Team Work. They appear to be strongly unified. I loved the Snake Race! There was ole' Jeff embedding commands, "You're gonna' get tired. You're gonna' wanna quit". And sure enough, people quit. Hmmmmm.

Bob continues to amaze me. The ole boy is tuff as nails and gentle as a lamb. I know for certain that we are only seeing a tiny bit of all he does in camp. The big turtle catch was just a glimpse of Bob. Aren't we glad they didn't show us the turtle kill! Thank God!

Bob and Corrine are totally over Dan. Few things will get strikes against you like stealing food, or eating more than your share! Dan seems oblivious to the disdain he is festering in his tribe mates.

I'm loving Kenny of Fang and Charlie of Koda. Both are slight men, and both are great little athletes. Kenny particularly gets my heart. And, doesn't he have a cute little Adam's apple? And while we're talking "cute", doesn't Jeff Probst have cute dimples!

Randy is still Randy,...Lots of razzmatazz and litanies of BS. Our saving grace is that he's on the winning team and we don't have to hang out with him very much.

Episode 4:

ANOTHER SURVIVOR JOINS THE LOATHSOME CAMP OF "QUITTERS!"

Crystal gave the best summary of GC: "He quit as our leader. He quit the challenge. He quit the game." Strike three and you're out, GC! I was starting to wonder how many times we'd have to "flush" before GC and his whining ways would go away! Go to the back of the pack, GC. Tuck your tail and slink back to loser's camp! Maybe you're not as pitiful as you seem. Perhaps you'll just been in a spoiled, angry mood for all of your 26 years. Maybe someday GC will get off his pity pot and become a man who'll take a stand.

The most interesting player in this game is turning out to be Sugar. Gotta' love The Sugar Shack, where our little Marilyn Monroe is "fat and happy." Dan nailed the truth of the strategy. Why send several people out to find the idol. Keep sending the same one and force her to use it before the merge. Our Sugar is smart like a fox. She just might make it to the jury anyway.

To my knowledge, Vanuatu was the only Survivor season ever to get NO FOOD.

What is the deal with all the food, just two weeks into this game! Fish, beans, corn, fruit!

It's amazing how much food people are getting this season. This game is starting to look like Survivor Hilton again. They even had huts pre-built for them.

Our "Crusty Ole' Man," Randy, didn't get much air time this week, but I gotta give it to him. The ol' boy is quite an athlete. He looked like a pro quarterback with that flying snatch, grab, and dunk of fruit. I'm thinkin' he's gonna' make it to the jury too. His strategy to "kick ass" and keep winning is his best shot for staying around for the merge. He is certainly leaving it all out there on the gaming field.

Dan is looking good....Maybe too good. I think he made a tactical error by saying, "I want all seven of you to stay together. We're the EVIL EMPIRE!" Marcus ain't buyin' Dan's "undying, complete, and total devotion to Kota," but then Marcus is probably seeing his own leadership being challenged by a lawyer. Amazingly, Marcus continues to be a totally nice guy. He's still my favorite to win this game.

Each week, I look for yet another great challenge designed by John Kirhoffer and his Dream Team. The Fruit Loop was pretty fruity, but I loved the down hill dodgeball.

This season continues to almost bore the crap outta' me, but the challenges save the day.

Way to go, John! I loved seeing Ace duped by Randy. Ace's sweet little Sugar let him down. But, unbeknown to Ace, he actually lost it by listening to Randy over Sugar. Hmmm! Might be a bit of gender bias there, Ace!

As we all know, Ace is completely FULL OF HIMSELF. He, in fact, thinks he has supremacy. Sounds dangerous, doesn't it? However, his presence when he watched the elephant was stunning. It made me a believer in the concept that "a beautiful child lives within all of us."

For those of us who have played this game, it's interesting to note that Tribal is now out in the open, versus in a Tribal Lodge. This might be a first.

By the way, I wish someone would tell our sexy little Jeff Probst that his shirts look slap dorky! See ya' next week Team. Have a good one!

Episode 3:

HO HUM! THE GORILLA YAWN WAS ABOUT THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS EPISODE!

Is it me, or are we all bored to tears here! I need some real shake ups and surprises. So far, this season is sooooo predictable. OK, here we go: Randy played a great game of water hockey, but my message to him is still "Earth is full. Go home!" Marcus might keep him around a little longer, but, gratefully, Randy's days are numbered.

Sugar is a doll and deserves COMFORT! Unfortunately, she will join her precious arrogant Ace on the new Fang, but her alliance is too small to matter...even with the immunity idol.

Duh, Crystal! We know the "boat wouldn't move!" Can she possibly understand that when you just sit on your butt and watch the little white ball float around, but do nothing to make the boat move...the boat won't move? The Crystal can definitely swing from "in your face" to "awhhhh, she got in my heart". Gotta' give it to her for figuring out the odds of Sugar, Ace, Jacque, and Kelly making an alliance that would challenge the Matty, Crystal, Ken, and GC alliance. Now the latter will dominate the voting at Tribal until the merge. Kelly may jump ship to join the alliance in Fang, but she's still on the bottom of the pile.

The "blend" of new tribes really did little to change up the strong alliances. Marcus, Charlie, Corrine, and Bob will dominate the voting in Koda. Bob is a sleeper and could well make it all the way to the final Four. At that level, he just might start winning individual challenges and make it to the end of the game.

Susie is a cutie and a very hard worker. But she's got a real live up hill battle to stay in this game. She'll probably be first to go at the next Koda vote.

I loved that Sugar seemed undaunted about being picked last. She seems so able to make the best of any situation. I'm liking this little Marilyn Monroe double! How sweet it is that the Last to be Chosen...is holding the immunity idol. I love that!

I, for one, loved the Rank Order Game. However, again there were no new surprises. I guess my list of expectations for such real excitement in this game would put most mortal men and woman out of the running! I wanna' see some real suffering going on out there. What happened to "skinny, starving, and dehydrated?

Hey Folks, I'm back in Oklahoma and loving it. I've got a place down here in Ada where the dirt feels like real goodness under my feet. I'm so happy to be back home.