I still can't believe he chose the girl with the muffin joke.

OK, fans, our crazy, absurd, ridiculous wonderful season of The Bachelor has come to an end. I for one, found the final special kind of sad. Not just because the show is over, but I always thought that these shows aired a longer time after all the events happened. But it seemed like it was all very fresh for them. Bevin still had a cast on her leg and tears in her eyes. Jeez - she got dumped, AND broke her ankle. Man, that sucks. And Amber still seemed kind of deluded as to how much of a connection she and Andy actually had. Danielle was true to form, being soft-spoken and understanding. Only Stephanie South Carolina (can the girl get a real name now?) seemed to have changed since the show. She acknowledged that she probably shouldn't have gossiped about all the other girls to Andy the way she did. She even said that she could see after watching that Andy had more connection with other girls. Wow! Did she actually gain a little maturity out of the process? (now if we can just get her to stop dressing like a prostitute...)


Not even crazy bug-eyed girl got a final word.

It was a real disappointment that they didn't bring back all the girls at the special this time. It's like they're trying to be a respectable show now or something! Come on! Not even the girls who lasted a little while, like Tina or Nicole? And didn't we all want to see the Barbie girls come back so they could say something really ridiculous? At the old "Women-tell-All" specials, they always showed all those wonderful unseen clips of the girls getting trashed and bad-mouthing each other. Oh well. I guess I respect ABC for trying to go legit this time around - sort of. I suppose Andy deserved it. We do have ourselves a pretty good man here. Or I should say, Tessa does. Those two do seem utterly delirious together. I give it six months. I believe in the magic of Hawaii. But will Tessa actually get to Hawaii? Did anyone else sense some hesitation on her part when she was saying she was moving? Or maybe it was that typical Tessa understated-ness we've come to know and love. It is just hard to get that girl to move quickly. She even had Andy echoing her favorite expression about taking "baby steps." I'm just not sure that's how he really works. And I don't know that Tessa is ready to uproot her whole life and run off to Navy paradise...

Finally, one last word about Bevin. I have so much respect for that girl and I don't think we've seen the last of her. The fact that she never felt the need to ask him why, because she understood that her focus should be on getting over him? I just think that is awesome.

Thanks SO much to everyone who visited the blog! Stay tuned soon for my thoughts on another reality fave, to be announced soon!!