Raise your hand if you loved watching the town council find out there were going to be elections. Raise your hand if you thought Anjay and Olivia were going to rumble. Now raise your hand if you believe Zach has a future in politics. Same here.

One thing I was surprised about was that nobody on the Green team wanted to run against Laurel in the district elections. Yes, she’s been doing a good job, but I figured at least one of them would want her leadership position.

How did you like the presidential-themed competition? It was funny watching them smashing the pinatas (especially little Alex and Mallory) and then even funnier watching the district leaders try to put their presidents in order. How fitting was it that Taylor knew nothing at all about the presidents and Zach had to tell her what order they went in? I was giggling like a little schoolgirl at that. But hey, you have to give them their due. The Yellow team won and became upper class again while Green came in second and became the merchants.

With five minutes left to win the reward (the teams were given 30 minutes), the Blue and Red teams were still working feverishly to even get their president cards. Finally, the Red team got theirs and finished in third place to become the cooks. With 15 seconds remaining, Anjay (the Blue team’s leader) finished placing their presidential cards in order so that all of Bonanza City could win a reward.

Now this is where I knew for sure that the town council was crazy. They could have chosen between a BBQ feast (ribs, chicken, hamburgers, hot dogs) and dental health products (toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, floss). Honestly, how would you have chosen if you had been there? I would have chosen BBQ and that’s what the kids wanted, but noooo… They chose dental health. That wasn’t a popular decision to make during election time.

After the competition, Zach went to Taylor to get paid and Taylor not so politely informs Zach that she has all of the girls’ votes so she’s going to win. Then the Taylor crew made up posters with Taylor’s cute little slogan “Deal with it” on them. While I don’t condone destruction of property, I certainly laughed out loud when Markelle (who’s not even on the Yellow team) tore her posters down and began jumping up and down on them with his pogo stick.

At the town hall meeting, the grownup didn’t even ask if anybody wanted to go home. He started them right off with awarding the Gold Star. It had been between Greg and Zach earlier when they got together, so it’s time to find out whom they settled on. Greg finally got the Gold Star! He tells them all that it means so much to him because now he’ll be able to go to college.

Now it’s time for the election to be held. Laurel automatically keeps her Green team’s council seat because nobody ran against her. Guylan ran against Mike on the Red team; Olivia ran against Anjay on the Blue team; and Zach ran against Taylor on the Yellow team.

The grownup reading the votes made me think of Survivor. Anybody else? In the end, Anjay won and kept his Blue team’s seat. Guylan won the Red’s teams seat almost unanimously. Mike was the only one that voted for Mike. Teehee. The Yellow team? Zach found a traitor in one of the girls and won the Yellow’s seat on the town council. “Vivia la Revolucion!” Taylor was quite nice about the whole thing though. At least, she was much nicer about it than I thought she would have been. Greg then made his phone call to his mother and older sister (?) and they’re thrilled for him of course.

Next week on Kid Nation, there seems to be some sort of environmental crisis and new leaders and old leaders get into it. Did I see Taylor kick Anjay? Whoa. Stay tuned!

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