Mike's Maze

[judecorp]

(x-posted with the baby blog)

It was time for the annual trip to the corn maze. Mike's Maze, to be specific. Best in the area. This year's maze celebrated Charles Darwin's 200th birthday.



Punk enjoyed climbing on the hay bales with the big kids.





And of course she loved the pumpkins!





When it was time to enter the corn maze, I strapped her on my back for the long haul.





She liked it for about 30 minutes, but she doesn't particularly like to be contained. There was no way she could free-range in a giant corn maze. No way in hell. So I spent the last hour of trying to solve the puzzle of the maze listening to her alternate between whining and hollering. And begging to hold the flag they give you in case they have to locate you. And hitting me with it.

(Re: the puzzle - this year's puzzle involved finding certain checkpoints in the maze and solving for the family/class of animal, and then finding the rubber stamp of that animal, and then stamping the circle on the map that corresponded to where you found that stamp. Have you SEEN the size of this maze? You had to REALLY be aware of where you were on the map so you could stamp the right circles. Even with Senorita Screamy Pants, I managed to correctly stamp all 13 circles we located. We gave up on the last 2 because I couldn't take it anymore, and it was getting chilly.)

Here is our completed map and victory pumpkin.



For comparison, here is a little throwback to our excursion last year:



We live in such a beautiful area. I love being able to take advantage of neat things like this and sharing them with my little prodigy.

Comments

[etherial.livejournal.com]

It's a bit of a hike for you guys, but the Davis Megamaze in Sterling is so big it has playgrounds inside.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, I will have to check that out next year!

[midnights-sun12.livejournal.com]

the picture with her and her pumpkin at the end is so gorgeous and precious! i totally didn't get your message until noon today as my phone died last night in the night! i can't wait to see you guys soon. <3

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Let's play soon, k?

[rexlezard.livejournal.com]

From toddler to kid in 12 short months!

I had no idea we had such a gigantic corn maze around here. I don't believe I've ever been to a corn maze.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh, you will have to go! I think it's open for one more weekend, or we could go together next year. :)

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

They change so much in a year eh?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Scary!

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

I love her! She is so cute. We need to get Carys out and about and photographed with some pumpkins! Ah fall.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I demand pumpkin photos!

[eeka13.livejournal.com]

I got kicked out of a corn maze. It had a lot of places where the corn was thin enough to make unintended openings, and they didn't do a good job putting netting/sticks/whatever across all of these to clarify. So my friend and I got to one of the checkpoint thingies, dude tells us we're going the wrong way, and if we're coming toward his checkpoint without having been past it once already, we had to have cheated and walked between the corn. I was like, nope, we sure didn't. He radioed someone to escort us out of the place. WTF?

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Hunh. Where was this? And yeah, there were a couple of places where the corn had gotten messed up or something and you could tell people had gone through, but I think here unless you were being super malicious about it (i.e. purposely knocking corn down) you would be safe.

That's odd.

Troublemaker.