When The Real Housewives of Atlanta finally departed their African resort in Sunday's episode, the staff saw them off with a lively song and dance as they climbed aboard their airport shuttle bus. Oh sure, the resort probably does that for all its guests. But after all the days these women have been there with their high maintenance needs, we're pretty sure the staff had an extra spring in their step the day these Atlantan nightmares left for good.

I mean, we were exhausted and we've only seen excerpts of their trip!

Anyhow, after a vacation that bonded many of the ladies, they plopped right back into their old lives in "Haterville," and ceased to remember how fortunate they all felt days before when visiting the African orphanage. While she was gone, NeNe Leakes' son was arrested and jailed for shoplifting a pack of razors from Wal-Mart. Sheree Whitfield brought back what was a light-hearted conversation in Africa, then blew it up to cause hard feelings between Kandi Burruss and Kim Zolciak.

Cynthia Bailey's hubby, Peter, was busy planning a party... one that the couple likely can't afford. Oh, and Kim was busy looking for a nanny because the other eight people in her house aren't really that big of a help.

At this point, Phaedra Parks seemed like the only one still basking in the post-vacation glow... and that only lasted until she was summoned to a luncheon at Kim's estate.

Welcome back, ladies!

KIM (134)

-- Kim contacts a nanny agency, because having a personal assistant, a chef, two housekeepers and two older daughters there  isn't enough help (-3)

-- Oh, wait, there's her assistant right now -- out chillin' by the pool side. Maybe she could use an extra hand after all (-2)

-- After looking at nanny resumes for all of 10 minutes, Kim finds out that one of her housekeepers, whom the baby already loves, has seven years nannying experience and hires her on the spot. This has got to be the easiest nanny search I've ever seen someone go through. It took about a whole 45 minutes from beginning to end (+4)

-- How do you know your house is truly enormous? When you push your baby around in a stroller indoors (+3)

-- Kim's interior designer stops by to discuss further plans for the house. Together, they look at professional photos the family had taken and Kim wants to get most of them framed. "I want to fill my house with beautiful things," she says, "me, Kroy, Kroy's ass!" Ever so modest, that Kim (-2)

-- Invites Sheree, Kandi and Phaedra over for lunch. After exchanging forced pleasantries, they all get into a ridiculous argument over whether Kandi really said that Kim wouldn't hold black babies at an orphanage or go to Africa. So much for a fun inaugural get-together at her new house (-5)

Net gain/loss: -5

Current total: 129

KANDI (88)

-- Goes over to to Kim's house, hoping to clear the air after Sheree got Kim all pissed at her (+2)

-- As they all share some lunch, the whole "orphanage/black babies/Kim would never go to Africa argument" comes up and everyone but Phaedra starts screaming. When it comes to Housewives arguments, the Atlanta 'wives are the worst ones. At least most of the ladies in other cities take turns bitching at one another so you can actually hear the insults they're slinging (-3)

-- Kandi stresses to Kim she doesn't think she's racist (+2), but Kim is still doubtful over the state of their friendship (-1)

Net gain/loss: +0

Current total: 88

SHEREE (34)

-- On the way to Kim's house, Phaedra and Kandi stop by to see the progress that's being made on Sheree's new house. They get out to look around and it is still just one big hole in the ground, like it was at the beginning of the season (-4)

-- Sheree arrives to Kim's before the other ladies and gets Kim all riled up toward Kandi again, telling her that Kandi is not a true friend. I know these catfights are half the reason we watch, but this one is based on Sheree's giant lie/exaggeration, so it's more annoying than entertaining (-4)

-- Instead of enjoying a lovely lunch out on the veranda, well,  you know by now what happened. Thanks, Sheree! (-3)

Net gain/loss: -11

Current total: 23

NENE (73)

-- Everyone else's little post-vacation monologue reveals that they feel uplifted and bonded by the trip -- except NeNe, who chooses to focus on all the petty arguments that occurred (-3)

-- Cynthia tells Peter that NeNe's son got arrested for shoplifting something stupid (two $14 razors) from Wal-Mart. Totally stupid reason to get arrested, but of all people, the scruffy 21-year-old could definitely use them (-5)

-- NeNe agrees to help Peter plan an anniversary party for him and Cynthia. After the meeting with the event planned, Peter talks to her about her son. NeNe reports that she's let him sit in jail for five days already because, at this point, he needs tough love (+3)

-- Peter encourages NeNe to get her son out of jail, so that it doesn't backfire on her. She reveals that his probation officer is actually the one who's holding up his release (-2)

Net gain/loss: -7

Current total: 66

CYNTHIA (33)

-- Back at home, Cynthia gives her daughter souvenirs from her Africa trip. When Peter asks for his, she admits she "forgot" to get him anything(-3)

-- With NeNe's help, Peter is planning a party for his and Cynthia's one-year anniversary. He goes to the event planner and tells them that even though the party will be for 150 "hungry people" from 7 p.m. to midnight, he wants to offer minimal food to keep costs down. Ummmm, wouldn't it make more sense to lop an hour off the start time so he wouldn't feel obligated to provide dinner? It's not like anyone ever comes on time anyway (-3)

-- Peter offers some advice to NeNe in regards to her son. It's refreshing to see Peter's caring side every once in a while because most of the time, it's hard to understand what Cynthia sees in him (+4)

Net gain/loss: -2

Current total: 31

PHAEDRA (72)

-- Goes to lunch at Kim's house, and is the only one who doesn't participate in the whole "what Kandi did or didn't say in Africa" debacle (+4)

-- That is, until Kandi asks Phaedra, as the neutral party, to chime in and say what really happened. She tries to do so quietly and tactfully, but the other women just start yelling again once she tries to set the record straight (-3)

Net gain/loss: +1

Current total: 73

MARLO (22)

-- Last day on the trip, Marlo has a servant come in to pack up the million shoes, handbags and sunglasses that she brought on the trip. She has specific instructions for each individual item, and instead of helping, she lounges in her bed, spooning ice into her mouth out of a wine glass (-4)

Net gain/loss: -4

Current total: 18

SCORECARD:

Kim: 129

Kandi: 88

Phaedra: 73

NeNe: 26

Cynthia: 31

Sheree: 23

Marlo: 18