Las Vegan finds herself out of her element

"They took the D'eva out of Vegas and put me in the middle of four boys," says D'eva Robinson, a 31-year-old North Las Vegas resident.

That's what happens when you apply to appear on a network TV show, as Robinson, a hairdresser and six-month resident of Southern Nevada, found out earlier this year.

Robinson and her family -- husband Dwayne, 47; Taylore, 12; Jourdyn, 10; Elijah, 8; and Journi, 5 -- were picked to appear on the ABC reality show "Wife Swap," which drops two female spouses into a contrasting environment and waits for the fireworks. The episode airs at 9 p.m. Friday on KTNV-TV, Channel 13.

Robinson was sent to Sunset, Texas, a " very small town in the middle of nowhere," she says. She left her family here and lived for two weeks with the Browne family, owners of a scrap yard.

"I knew they were going to take me out of my element," Robinson says, whose element usually is the bright lights of the Strip, sushi restaurants and art galleries.

Instead, Robinson found herself where there's "nothing but horses, cows, dogs and fields of nothing," she says.

The Brownes -- husband Trenton, 39; sons, Jeremy, 14; Joshua, 12; Benjamin, 11; and live-in nephew Charles, 17 -- were unlike the Robinsons.

"I was totally appalled and shocked," Robinson says. "They were all belching and farting. ... And the 11-year-old drives a car!"

But it didn't take Robinson long to tame them. "Two weeks was enough for D'eva," she says. "They were a little unruly in the beginning, but if you get to the oldest one, the rest will fall in line."

Even the husband, Trenton, "was like a big kid," according to Robinson.

Meanwhile, Christie Browne swapped farm livin' for the big city.

She had never flown on an airplane before, Dwayne Robinson says, and "she didn't enjoy anything at all. She has lived in that town her whole life."

Dwayne and the kids attempted to get Christie into a dress and makeup and pearls, but that went over like stepping in a cow patty.

"I thought it would be easy," Dwayne says. "But she was a tomboy who wanted to stay a tomboy. She went crazy."

But the Robinson children "kind of liked her. She told them 'No chores,' they got to play all week," he says.

"We had to build a go-kart together," Jourdyn says.

"And she made us wrestle in the living room," says Elijah.

For Dwayne, who has been going to cosmetology school, doing the show made him appreciate D'eva more, he says.

Through it all, D'eva would do the show again if she could. "It made me a stronger person," she says. "It was a vacation, but it definitely wasn't a spa. Although they did have a hot tub."