Corn Maze 2010

Fall is my favorite season. I love the sounds, the smells, the cooling temperatures after a hot and sticky summer. I love to attend the local apple orchards, ride hay wagons, pick pumpkins and gourds and maneuver a corn maze. I didn't have this experience growing up. I did pick apples but that was either at the neighbor's house or at a welfare farm as a service project.

For some reason I was really eager to do a corn maze this year. Maybe it was because all the kids are old enough and big enough that we could ALL enjoy the experience. So we set aside a day for our trip to the apple orchard and maze. Unfortunately, it was 85 degrees! Are you kidding me? I think is was the 3rd weekend of October and we were melting! Ugh! Many people will not understand my frustration, but we don't like being hot.We completed the maze in record time for us because it was so HOT, and we were able to spread out to find the checkpoints. It was an awesome example of how awesome we can be when we work together. We would reach a crossroad and everyone would run a different direction for a distance. We would listen for one of us to call out that they had found a marker or we would meet back at the point of our divergence.

Everyone was able to find markers and we made a great team. By the time we finished we were all sweaty and in desperate need of air conditioning. Did I mention it was too hot to be considered an Autumn day? Hot, people!

Once we conquered the maze we bypassed the wagon ride, apples, pumpkins and gourds because we were HOT. We went directly to A&W for ice cream. We had a great day together, but it was not a typical trip to the apple orchard. The funny thing about the weather in MN is that it is unique in the extremes. One of the fall weekends before or after our day trip would have numbed our hands and been a miserable day at the orchard as well. In MN if you don't like the weather, wait a minute and it will change.