You might be wondering why I'm spelling amazing "amaizing." No I haven't gone crazy, it's because we went to a corn maze north of Hillsborough. We were going to go last fall but Hurricane Isabel messed up the maze so we decided to finally make the trek over there. When we arrived we saw 12 acres of corn and most of it was taller than me (no cheating allowed). Unfortunately it wasn't really Autumnal weather yesterday so it was kind of humid and warm which made for a sweaty trek through the maze. Upon paying for admission and talking to the owner we were informed of the record time for this season (1 hr 15 mins for those keeping track). Confident in our maze solving and checkpoint finding skills we declared that we'd easily beat that time. Ha ha, what we didn't know was that we aren't too good at human size mazes. Our strategery involved staying together which didn't work too well, splitting up and calling back and forth a la Marco Polo which had some success until we go split up and promptly lost. After much wondering around the maze and wondering were Suze ended up I made may way back to the entrance because I couldn't find the exit and there she was chatting with the McKees. As you probably figured out we didn't succeed in breaking the record and took almost 30 minutes longer and we didn't even find all of the checkpoints.
After filling out our ticket to have a chance to win $100 at the end of teh season we checked out the animals and saw a big honking Rooster, some chickens, goats, ducks, a rabbit, and a donkey. Thanks to modern camera phone technology we shot these pics to make our heads look like corn.
I'm crazy corn head, give me some candy.
After some rope swinging we decided it was time to eat some lunch and Susanna yet again provided food in her real deal picnic basket. We went to downtown Hillsborough and found a picnic table next to the Eno River and the native american interpretive village and had an excellent lunch of pb&j sandwiches, apples, chips, and Coke in glass bottles. After lunch we headed back to Chapel Hill because Susanna had to head back to Raleigh to get ready for work.
Overall an excellent day filled with surprises, adventure, and awesome company.
If you're near Hillsborough, NC check out McKee's Cedar Creek Farm for corn maze fun.
Oh yeah, today I've been lazy.
3 comments:
Ben Meagan and I went through a corn maze last year. I don't know if we cheated or not. It tooks us awhile and we had fun. I like fall. Only fall weather to me is a cool dry breeze with pretty autumn leaves. It's good stuff up north.
Jacs
This week's weather has been excellent and very Autumnal unlike last Saturday.
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