On Wednesday, October 8th, I decided to take the kids to the Corn Maze. I had looked at the weather coming up and it was showing rain...lots and lots of rain! I usually like to wait to go to the corn maze until later in the month, but I really don't like going after it's been raining a bunch since it feels like it turns into a muddy mess and if you wait to go until too late in the month then a bunch of the corn stalks have been knocked down by people making short cuts through the maze.
The mazes this year were an Outlaw and a Cowboy. It's always fun to see what designs Carpinito Brothers comes up with.
Ella, Justine and I went into the Cowboy Maze first while Jack and Zeke went to the Outlaw Maze.
They had laid down a really nice layer of bark so the maze was in great shape. There were already a few shortcuts from people walking through the stalks, but it wasn't bad.
It took us about 20 minutes to finish the maze.
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Time for the Outlaw Maze.
That maze was fun because the 'WANTED' letters were so big! It took us less than 20 minutes to finish the Outlaw Maze. We finished both mazes before Jack and Zeke did. In fact we heard them when we were in the Wanted Maze so they hadn't even finished that one after we had already finished the Cowboy Maze.
Justine on his Throne of Hay!
The pumpkin patch is so cute. I wanted to go over and get pictures with the sign that says, 'How tall this fall?' But you have to pay to get in there and then we would have ended up getting pumpkins which I didn't want to get this year. So instead we went over to check out the produce section.
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I didn't end up seeing anything that I needed to buy so we went over to look at the HUGE pumpkins. This was the first time I remember there being so many pumpkins usually it's just one or two.
Jackson ended up coming down to Corn Maze a bunch since he got hired on for the season. He only worked for about a month. His job was to deal with all the wheelbarrows and then he also added up the weight of the pumpkins and gave people their slip of paper to take over to the cashier. It wasn't his favorite job by all means, but it did give him a little cash. He was thinking about possibly applying for another seasonal job with Carpinito Brothers at their Christmas tree lot, but then one of the other employees said he worked there last season and it seriously sucked all the joy out of the holiday season so Jack decided that wasn't for him. One of the really nice benefits to him working there was when he worked a closing shift he could go over to the roasted corn stand and if they had leftovers they'd give him a bag to bring home. He was able to bring home a bag of roasted corn on the cob 3 times. Yummy!!!
