After we arrived Saturday afternoon and had lunch at James' house, we all took a field trip to the local corn maze and pumpkin patch in Patterson. The original idea was to pick out pumpkins for the kids to carve, but after paying admission just to walk through the 'gate', we ended up just playing around with all the fun things they had for kids. First up was the giant pyramid of hay bales that the kids immediatey ran to when we arrived:
After conquering that 'hurdle' the kids made a b-line for the kids maze made out of hay bales. The hay bales were tall enough for the smaller kids to actually navigate blindly through the maze and small enough for the older kids to climb on and play leap frog with each other. It was so fun to watch all the kids try to jump from one "wall" to the other. There were a few misses, but no injuries...and they had a blast.
Pooped!
Here's my favorite shot of Josh leaping across a larger gap in the hay walls, while his younger brother Will sat staring into the sunset with what can only be described as a casually unaffected demeanor.
Priceless!
After a few more falls and some pretty cool sucessfull leaps, the kids moved on to the 'sandbox' of corn kernals (pictures to follow in another post). While most of the children gleefully stuffed their shirts full of the feed corn in the boxes, James took little Will to the pyramid to race to the top...
James, being the awesome dad that he is, made a very convincing attempt at beating Will to the top without actually beating him there.
The king of the mountain shot was awesome!
[Insert sarchasm font here] Then came time for the much-anticipated pig races! It's a time-old tradition at corn mazes such as this one to starve poor little piglets all afternoon and then set them loose in a track-like pen while they all run as fast as they can to the other end for their dinner.
Even if I don't belive in the game, I still enjoyed watching the kids...
All-in-all...a great day at the corn maze!
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