aMAZEing

The kids and I took a little trip to Canon City yesterday to visit a pumpkin patch.  It's called Diana's Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze.  I sort of felt like I was in a maze trying to get there.  The trusty map from Map Quest wasn't so trusty.  I got lost a few times and then called the pumpkin patch (twice) for directions.  By the time we got there I was, let's just say, aggravated. 

We got our tickets and away we went into the maze.  They set it up like the game of Clue.  There were signs with weapons, people and places and we marked them off our cards as we found them.  There were also scarecrows with clues to help.  I was forewarned by the owner  not to go all the way through since I was "wearing" the baby.  We didn't make it through and never found out who did it. We wandered around for nearly  forty minutes which was about thirty minutes too long for Katie.  She fell and was too hot.  I guess she takes after me and gets cranky when the weather is too warm.

I got our picnic lunch ready while the kids played in the loose, dry corn.  They threw it, filled buckets, dove in it and  buried their sister.  Next, we went over to slide.  They propped a big culvert pipe on a haystack to make the slide.  We had fun climbing up and sliding down into more loose corn.  I went down with Andrew and landed a little too hard at the bottom.  The rest of the day my rear end hurt when I sat down.

The kids also got to choose a pumpkin. Decisions, decisions. They chose great ones. I wish we could have stayed longer and made it through the maze. Next time I need to take cash so we can buy some apple cider or a carmel apple.