Getting lost

I am late to the game, and Megan has already covered this, so if you read there then you are already caught up. On the weekend we teamed up and headed out to our local cornfield maze. The dads were golfing and we had no intention of sitting home twiddling our thumbs, so off we went.

It’s been a few years since we were at the maze – the last time I can recall being there can be seen here – but I needed a stand-in for our non-existent trip to the apple orchard. On a free day last week, we had wanted to go to the orchard, but we were thwarted twice over. First – the local place we have gone to before has changed hands, and the new owners actually tore all the apple trees out and converted it into a standard farm field, full of corn and soybeans. I’m still kind of dismayed by that. Second, the late frost in the spring has pretty much killed the local apple business around here, and the other orchards aren’t running u-pick this fall as a result. So the corn maze would have to do for our fall harvest field trip.

It is funny now to read back on that 2007 trip, when the outing did not interest us all that much. This year, we had to tear ourselves away from the place a little after 6 p.m., and then only because we were starving. And, we spent less time in the maze than we did on the other stuff: the hay jump...

...and the petting zoo...

Oh look, we're actually in the maze now. Well, at the start of it.

(I did not intentionally dress Mallory in as much cheetah print as possible that day - it just happened.)

There were a few arguments about which way to go.

Here are the Barrs, trying to cheat with modern technology - bringing a wealth of Apple gadgets into the maze with us! (No, there's no App for that. Audrey had just taken a photo of the arial view of the maze for reference's sake.)

We thought getting to the top of the bridge might provide a clue as to where to go next. But as you can see from this picture... no such luck.

Obviously, we did make it out alive. So I'd call the day a success. Thanks for the fun day, Barrs!!