The Bachelorette - Emily Maynard - Episode 5

Tonight's episode took us to historic London:

This first date had some awesome coincidences in it for me and I'll explain why in a second.  Her first one-on-one was with Sean.

They boarded their very own, private, red double decker bus and hit the best sites of London.  After a day of running around town, they finally sat down for dinner at the Tower of London.  Now, this guy right here is the Beefeater that welcomed Emily and Sean to the Tower of London:

I thought this guy looked familiar and for good reason.

Yes, my husband and I had our picture taken with that VERY Beefeater in London two years ago.  Crazy, right?!?  I couldn't believe the coincidence.  Howie thought I was crazy until I pulled up the picture on my Facebook and showed him.  "Yep, that's him."  I had no idea we were getting our picture taken with such a celebrity.

Second coincidence of the night was that Emily was seen having her picture taken in this very phone booth, too:

That's me!  And I'll tell you, that phone booth was nothing special.  It smelled like urine.  Quite popular, I'm sure.

Anyway, so they ate dinner in the Tower of London and in the end Sean got a rose.  Emily really likes this one.  They topped of their evening by making out in front of the Tower Bridge.  Very romantic.

The group date was a very eventful one.  Those in attendance were Chris, Arie, Ryan, Doug, Alejandro, John, Kalon, and Travis.  They met up in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the birth place of Shakespeare.  Emily gave them the fantastic news that they would be re-creating Romeo & Juliet in front of a live audience.

Some of the guys were up for the challenge.  Others were petrified.  Ryan took to his role pretty easily since he got to kiss Emily.

Arie was a horrible actor, so he got cast as one of the nurses.  He made a pretty hot chick. (not)

Emily thought Kalon took the acting WAY too seriously.  She wanted him to just have fun with it and he couldn't.

Overall, Emily was pleased with their performances and took them to the nearest pub for a round of beers.  That's when all hell broke loose.  Word on the street was that Kalon and Chris had a conversation the night prior to the group date.  Kalon mentioned, in passing, that Emily had a lot of "baggage".  We assume this to mean her 6 year old daughter.  So, Kalon was essentially calling Ricki baggage.  When Doug got wind of this news he went straight to Emily and told her the news.  Emily was livid.  Beyond livid.  She was very, very enraged. (check out a poorly made video of Emily confronting Kalon here)  Due to the unfortunate actions of Kalon, Emily started to wonder if anyone was going to stick-up for her.  She wants a protector, not a coward.  So, Emily didn't hand out any roses on the group date.  She was too mad.

Once Emily had some time to blow off some steam, she had her final one-on-one date with Jef (from SLC!!).

They started out by having a really lame tea party.  Some old lady came in and tried to teach them the proper way to have a tea party, but neither Emily nor Jef were wanting to have any part in it.  So, they bailed.  They headed out on their own.  They eventually ended up at the London Eye for a scenic activity and some dessert.  They had plenty of good conversation and when Jef felt right about it, he FINALLY kissed her.  Emily ended up giving him a rose so, she must be diggin' our SLC guy.

The cocktail party this evening had a lot of misdirected anger coming from Emily to a number of the guys.  I really think the whole Kalon thing was blown way out of proportion.  Emily cornered a few of the guys and asked them "Why didn't you stick-up for me?"  I really didn't think some of the guys deserved to be put on the spot like that, especially Arie.

By the time the rose ceremony ended, these were the only two that high-tailed it home this week.  Kalon and Alejandro.

Next week they head to Croatia!  I'm so jealous!