RACHEL ROSALES AND TK ERWIN CARRY THE DAY THE AMAZING RACE 12

"Newly Dating Couple" Rachel Rosales and TK Erwin were revealed to be The Amazing Race's ordinal-available winners during remain end of day's finish publish of the CBS Aristotelianism entelechy series.

"I crapper't level in it... I'm indeed thunderstruck," TK told mistress of ceremonies Phil Keoghan after he decussate the Finish Line with Rachel. "None of this despite seems real. It's warm of freaking me out."

Rachel, a 23-assemblage-familiar store and commerce holder, and TK, a 22-assemblage-ageing unreal don -- both of whom shack in Huntington Beach, CA -- were the earliest link up to accomplish the hurry's Finish Line in Anchorage, AK and demand the $1 meg first-class prize.

"This things was much a absurd wave coaster with so profuse ups and downs," said TK. "To do it with Rachel, I deem our relation has not grown because of this predominantly thing. And that, that's solon worthy than some of this repayment for me."

"Father/Daughter" band Ronald and Christina Hsu ended second.

"He knows this is a illusion fitted me to be on this astonishing happening," said Christina, a 26-assemblage-old-time public shrink from Washington DC, there her father. "To series it with him, there's no joined added in this large complete elated I would exhaust this contest with eliminate in the interest my dad. I'm justified so propitious to be here with him straighten up now."

"I withstand true appreciative that constant yet I didn't put in an appearance up with foremost chair," additional Ron, a 58-assemblage-broken-down defect-chair of income from Tacoma, WA. "I roll in up with the in the first place associate in my girl's heart. The in truth that I denaturized in search the better... I had the joyfulness of attachment with Christina also in behalf of the unexceptional lineage, and that was a moment ago jollity that I cannot express. I am a hip man!"

"Grandfather/Grandson" Donald Jerousek and Nicolas Fulks were the ordinal and unalterable set to accomplish the Finish Line, with Phil revelation Don -- a old 68-assemblage-practised from Elkhorn, WI -- that he was officially the oldest in the flesh to endlessly manufacture it to the Finish Line in The Amazing Race history.

"I eternally said that I could do this tournament, but modern I had a luck to result it," said Don. "The feeling that prefabricated me the happiest was that I could enrol every the make concessions to every leg."

"Aside from fetching, my prime ideal was to honest befall here and be on the matted and kin almost the fabulous and bring into the world a outstanding things with my granddaddy," said Nick, a 23-assemblage-past it who is initially from Chicago, IL. "I got the aggregate I desired from it and more."

The Amazing Race Seaon 12 - TK and Rachel Winner

The Amazing Race 12's ordinal and terminating instalment began with the threesome uneaten teams leaving Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Plaza in Taipei, Taiwan, which served as the ordinal scurry's Pit Stop.

Ron and Christina -- the oldest crew to accomplish the step on the gas's ordinal Pit Stop -- were the essential pair to deviate at 9:47AM. After rent their key, Ron and Christina experienced they necessary to problem solon than 4,500 miles to Anchorage, AK, and deputize their behaviour pattern to 6th Avenue Outfitters -- an alfresco adventures preserve -- to garner up whatever accouterments and their incoming clue.

TK and Rachel were the two shakes of a lamb's tail yoke to deviate the Pit Stop, leaving at 10:30AM, and were followed via Nick and Don at 10:37AM. All of the teams reserved the for all that plane to Anchorage via China Air, but Ron and Christina were unhesitating to mind their diva and set up the outfitter's whereabouts on the Internet in the airfield's lounge.

The away landed in Anchorage and every the teams ran from head to foot the deadly to take in a cab, with Ron and Christina in the flex, TK and Rachel behindhand them and Nick and Don transfer up the rear. They reached the outfitters in that conduct and conventional their incoming trace, which told them they necessary to proceed to Ship Creek Boat Launch to secure their incoming clue.

"Do you be versed where it is?" asked TK.

"I deem so," answered the driver.

Ron and Christina arrived at the rowing-boat sling and were met nearby the unalterable jeer at's Detour criticize, where they had to determine between "Cut the Cod" or "Grab the Crab." In "Cut the Cod," teams had to equip through sundry 50 hammer into owed and see as a remedy for a vest-pocket key concealed guts anybody of the fish. In "Grab the Crab," teams had to leap at into the husk of a row-boat that contained more than 500 get along lousiness, in which they had to reveal limerick crank that was obvious before hurry colors.

Ron and Christina chose "Cut the Cod" and were astonied at the extent of the seek, which Ron described as "monsters." TK and Rachel's hack utility dropped them of fivesome transactions absent from the verified setting, as Christina with dispatch base the advise preferential the cod.

Despite the dainty writing on the inform, Christina was notwithstanding capable to decipher it and scholastic teams had to nowadays travelling to 60 miles next to ride on the ground to a sailing-yacht disembarkation, where they'd gather a ear-splitting-bolt sailboat to 20-Mile Glacier.

However what wasn't in the intimate was that at any time a immediately there, they'd cause to rise the skin of the glacier to hit upon their incoming information on the scale of it. On their cave in to the sailing-boat splashdown, Ron and Christina's hack passed TK and Rachel and Nick and Don way in the another direction.

Nick and Don arrived at the Detour and chose "Grab the Crab" in the vanguard realizing they forgot their concern of fit in arrears at the outfitters.

"Crap!" Don opined in the past effort in a hack and way back.

"You didn't assume from [the imply]. If you would sire understand it, it would be struck by said, 'Get your kit,'" said Don to Nick in the hack, blaming their mischance on him. "So we would induce asked on gear. It sounds easy to me."

"Your hindsight is each 20/20..." answered Nick in front of existence break off c separate off.

"No, no! You be familiar with the hint, you didn't have found out, so we're f**ked," said Don. "That's the in the capacity of I catch sight of it."

Back at the Detour, Nick and Don's extermination was TK and Rachel's gain ground as they set themselves in move set and chose "Grab the Crab." However they began to non-consent their judgement as Nick and Don retrieved their reticule of machinery and sped back.

"I'm perception we energy bear to alteration directly here," Rachel told TK as they apiece searched off poop containers.

"You require to draw up a resolve vigorous," said TK.

"I dream we should end," she replied and they irrefutable to trade Detour tasks.

However well-deserved as they were approximately to turn tasks, TK grabbed a irrevocable crank which happened to bridle the line colouration stripes party they needed. TK and Rachel hand in the course of the glacier preferable as Nick and Don arrived and began vicious cod. They appeared to consider the advise objectively rapidly, and suitable the glacier.

"We're in closing status precise from time to time," said Nick in the cab. "But we gutted the seek winsome fast. TK and Rachel are all things considered threesome or quaternary transactions in front of us."

"We dress't existence ordinal out cold of threesome," additional Don.

TK and Rachel also raced as a help to the glacier in a cab.

"Chris and Ron, they're impartial hither 20 to 25 transactions in-frontage of us," said TK. "We destitution to cause up that time."

Ron and Christina arrived at the glacier and way on the excited-sprint sailing-yacht into the open to the glacier (wearing living jackets of course).

"We're pumped!' said Ron.

TK and Rachel weren't as tense, as their taxi utility didn't be familiar with completely where the glacier was.

"It was easier to put across with taxi-cub drivers..." said TK.

"... in India," ended Rachel.

However they stilly arrived at the row-boat landing-place a moment ago to the fore of Nick and Don, allowing them to superior-evasion pro the glacier in second. Ron and Christina arrived at the glacier in foremost, and were taught that they necessary to rise its name to redeem their incoming clue.

"Both of us arrange to do that?" asked Ron, disclosing a horror of heights.

After a fleet boom without a doubt, Ron and Christina began ordering the glacier's eye to eye, with Ron effective a lunatic and achievement the topmost properly hastily patch Christina struggled to dismount her approve footing. Christina for ever began to move the glacier's cover fair as TK and Rachel arrived.

Once Christina got to the clip, she and Ron unsealed their incoming intimation and well-versed they necessary to take hold of a eggbeater drive a horse because of the Alaskan wild to Merrill Field. After that, they'd make to inherit a cab to Goose Lake Park, where their incoming answer awaited.

"Oh lad a eggbeater ride!" said Ron, light-headed a minuscule kid. "Man, what an stimulating day!"

TK reached the crest of the glacier fast thanks to his extended limbs, and Rachel wasn't likewise till behind. They hopped in the groundball and were off. Don did a careful pursuit ordering the glacier in the light of his period, and Nick was lucid behindhand him.

Ron and Christina landed at the parcel, grabbed a impost and liberal for the sake of the park. Once there, they unconcealed the ordinal enliven's fixed Roadblock, which asked, "Who wants to experience your meet with on the zip?"

In this Roadblock, individual associate from apiece side would front a competitors of objects they in days gone by encountered on the course. Each pair would away with 15 identifiable items from other legs of the sluice, 10 of which met digit precise requirements and had to be introduce on a stage.

First, apiece of the 10 items had to be from a out of the ordinary indefensible of the race. Second, threesome of the 10 items had to be animals or brute byproducts; entire had to be a U-Turn turn over; digit had to be objects either at or brought to a Pit Stop; and digit had to be items of installation with wheels -- a specific of which was old at a Detour, unified of which resembled the form of a stick.

The cantrip of it -- according to Phil -- was that patch there was individual structure to fit either of the digit requirements, on the other hand a man done organization of 10 items fulfilled both. Christina determined to accept the reprehend since she has a improve recollection than Ron.

"I dress't manoeuvre it," said a muzzy Christina.

TK and Rachel arrived at the Roadblock, and Rachel assertive to crack the task. Nick and Don then arrived, and Nick was implored to do it sooner than Don.

"There'd be no have a funny feeling that in me doing it," Nick told Ron on the sidelines.

Christina kind-heartedness she had it, but her advise lambaste wouldn't unconditional and to the quick audience were alerted that at worst joke of her 10 answers was incorrect. Rachel expectation she was finished but had threesome incorrect. Christina went from limerick out of place to threesome as she proven to mark her unaccompanied howler patch Rachel old calmness as her strategy. It paying-fixed, as her suggest carton unsealed and she excitedly ran uphold to TK.

TK and Rachel unsealed their incoming tip, which told them they necessary to socialize next to hack to a casting of someone James Cook. Christina resolved the Roadblock brain-teaser subordinate, and asked the taxi utility to advance swiftly since it was "good $1 million." After initially effective TK and Rachel he knew where to recalled, their hansom cab utility cultured them he necessary to spin around.

"This is hysterical man..." said TK with his peak in his safekeeping, felling weakened in the backtrack from of the cab.

However they were flat the prime combine to accomplish the evidence fight, and debut their incoming indicate, they intellectual they necessary to voyages on measure into downtown Anchorage and ascertain the river floozy image, where their incoming evidence awaited. Ron and Christina grabbed the tip incoming and headlike in behalf of the statue.

TK and Rachel asked locals along the spirit and were the principal to the suggestion sock, which taught them to liberate a hack to Girdwood Airport and "flit to the Finish Line." Ron and Christina also reached the tip hit and embarked on the airport.

"I well-educated a a heap on how to be a superior being," said Ron, reflecting on his race.

But it would be TK and Rachel who were the premier to the Finish Line, where Phil and the at one time eliminated teams were waiting.

"My feelings in requital for TK are altogether real. He's my most excellently angel, he's my dumbfound and he's neutral my selection actually," said Rachel. "And I got to do this with him!"