The Bachelorette - Emily Maynard - Episode 3

Emily's first one-on-one date tonight was with Chris.  She decided to make him work for his dinner by climbing to the top of a massive building.  This was more of a "traditional" Bachelorette date night, if you know what I mean.  But, Chris was up for the challenge.

They made it despite the weather getting bad.  It got super windy and a storm started moving in.  Emily got scared but she had Chris by her side for comfort.

At the top they enjoyed a lovely dinner and had great conversation.  Emily continues to be really impressed by Chris.  She seemed to get a little concerned when she realized how old Chris was.  He is only 25.  Emily is 26.  She doesn't normally date guys that are younger than her so, this threw her for a loop.  By the end of the night she must've overcome that though because Chris got a rose!

They topped off the evening with a private concert from country singer Luke Bryan in the streets of Charlotte.

The participants of tonights group date were Charlie, Sean, John, Michael, Alejandro, Alessandro, Stevie, Ryan, Doug, Jef, Tony, and Travis.  Unfortunately, ABC decided not to post ANY photos from this portion of the episode so, I have no visuals for you.

Emily took the group to a nearby park and led them to believe that it was just going to be a day playing football.  Much to their dismay, the day turned out to be an ambush from Emily's closest friends.  They were able to interview the guys one by one and tell Emily what they thought of them.  Some guys were on their best behavior, but others were a little too honest.  Alessandro, for example, let the women know that he's 1) cheated on a previous girlfriend in the past, and 2) had a one night stand with his cousin (3rd cousin so, maybe it doesn't count, right?).

Oh, Alessandro...you are so dumb.  He got even more dumb as the episode went on.  We'll get into that later.

Alessandro wasn't the only guy scoring points with Emily.  Ryan decided to open up his pie hole by saying that Emily shouldn't get fat because he would be less attracted to her if she did.  "I would still LOVE you, I just wouldn't love ON you as much."

What a charmer.  We'll see where THAT gets you Ryan.

Throughout the date Tony seemed to be missing his son at home a ton.  He was constantly talking about how much he missed him and wanted to be with him.

Emily knows exactly how he's feeling so, she decides to send him home early.  I don't think she really saw a future with him anyway.

Sean is the lucky guy who got a rose on the group date.  He impressed Emily's friends the very most, in fact, one of them probably would've taken him home if she could.

The final one-on-one date of the night went to Arie.  I don't know if you noticed, but Arie is pretty cute.

Emily took Arie in a private jet to Tennessee to visit Dollyworld.  Emily is a huge fan of hers so, it was only fitting that he see this side of her.

They had a great time playing games and getting to know each other better.

They even sat down to try to write a love song together.

Much to Emily's surprise, Dolly Parton showed up to sing to them!  She was shocked because she's such a big fan.

Dolly serenaded them while they danced.  Such a cute moment!

Later, at the cocktail party, a lot of revealing conversations took place.  First of all, Travis decided to ditch the weird egg.  Emily told him it was time to let it go so, together, they smashed it.

Probably the most interesting of all came from Alessandro, the jerk (pictured earlier in this post).  He told Emily that raising her child was a "compromise" he would have to make for her.  Emily wasn't happy about that.  She doesn't want Ricki to be a "compromise" for anyone.  She wants them to consider her an honor to raise so, bye bye Alessandro.  He was out of there before Emily even had an opportunity to hand out the roses.

Tonight's fatalities were Tony, Alessandro, and Stevie (yay!).  Stevie was creepy.