The last couple of years we've been making it a tradition to take the kids to the "Fear Farm" corn maze. It always looks so crazy and wild, being a "teenage" hangout with really loud music (sponsored by KUPD)...but our kids love navigating their way through the acres of corn in the dark! This year, my mom was in town and my sister Shavonne is having some difficulties with her pregnancy, so we also got my little niece, Haven, for the night!
We looked so flipping sweet! We had 2 strollers, 6 kids, and 3 adults all by-passing the sweet little pumpkin patch next door, for the wild, smokey, and loud "FEAR FARM"! My mom was a little nervous, but the kids reassured her it would be so much fun!
While we were listening to our "instructions" to go through the maze, we found out that there was a wedding reception going on in a part of the corn...that was not part of the "maze", and we were to make sure we were staying on the correct paths...that were wide, with packed dirt. Yeah, yeah...we were just interested to know...who wanted to have their reception in the corn???
Anyway, so we were off to a solid start...sure that we knew exactly where we were...until we realized...that we had no idea where we even started! Last year we didn't pay attention to the map at all and some how completed the whole maze by accident in a record 30 minutes! (I'm sure we didn't actually do the maze as it was intended) This year was so different! After about 10 minutes we decided we were completely lost and started following "shortcut" paths that had been forged by some previously lost and frustrated individuals! It was so funny! We had all these kids and 2 strollers coming out of nowhere into the middle of clearings...scaring the crap out of people! We must have looked like such a sight! All my mom and me kept thinking about was the fact that one of these times we were going to come out right in the middle of the wedding reception...and our original maze guide would be there to reprimand us for not staying on the wide, packed dirt paths! So we sent Phil with Seattle in the stroller first! Plus he helped forge some extra room for Haven's stroller, behind him, when the paths became too narrow! If there could have been a hidden camera on us...I could only imagine!
We finally found our way out shortly after Brooklyn announced she had to go to the bathroom! That was incentive enough for Phil to grab his bearings and lead us out of the flipping maze!!!
When we came out we had an audience of scared teenage girls that wondered if the maze was scary. After they saw all the kids smiling and saying it was fun...I think they became convinced...the only scary things in there...just left!
In the end...all still smiling! 
It was a lot of fun...and I recommend it to anyone brave enough to walk through the "wild" crowds!
It was really dusty...so we lost some really good footage outside of the maze!
4 comments:
Oh have totally fun- and you are brave!
that really does sound fun! Did you guys do the maze in the dark?
Summer, your blog is so funny! I love it! Lets go out soon!
Do they have a separate maze that is more kid-friendly?? I though the maze had people in it who were waiting to jump out and scare you which is why we skipped it??? --b
Post a Comment