by Chandra Clewley

This week on The Real Housewives of Orange County Gretchen goes to Texas for business and Slade is helping her. Some of her girlfriends are going to meet her out there to have some fun, too.

Peggy has invited Tamra and Vicki to wine tasting because she doesn’t feel like she was able to hang out with them at the dinner party. They talk about Alexis and Jim, and how he doesn’t want to hang out with that group so he didn’t come to the dinner party.

 After that they talk about Vicki and why she never had kids with Don.  Later, the issue of Alexis being competitive with Peggy comes up, and there is a lot of tension has grown there because of the show. 

It becomes apparent that when the conversation turns to Don, things are awkward and Vicki says her world and her marriage are falling apart. But she doesn’t want to talk about it…

Slade’s mom comes to visit Gretchen and Slade and they talk about Grayson and the court case with Slade.  His mother and he talk about the fact that there is a perception that he is marketing and managing Gretchen and riding her coattails. She completely calls him out on not really having a job…

Speaking of calling out, Tamra calls Fernanda out on telling Lynn Curtain about their kiss. Tamra disregards Fernanda’s feelings about the kiss, and it seems like Fernanda is genuinely hurt by it.

Alexis is having her dress line photo shoot at the St. Regis. Jim shows up and things get awkward for Alexis.  He starts telling her how to pose and do things, and it actually looks better, but everyone is getting stressed out by him. They even set a smoke alarm off.

Gretchen arrives in San Antonio to go on San Antonio Living, with Slade.  Slade is helping her with marketing, but everyone assumes he is just riding her coattails.

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