Title: Sep 25, 2004

September 25, 2004

Out with Tammie and Kim Marks to the Amazing Corn Maze today - a 15-acre corn patch with a maze cut into it. Apparently they change the maze and theme each year and this year's theme was the solar system. The object was to make your way through the maze - to find 9 signs - and match them up with the clues that you had - and then get your scorecard punched at each sign. Easy right? - Not! With all the rain that they have had in Winnipeg - there was better than 6 to 8 inches of mud and water in the cornfield. It was very slippery and wet. To add to the fun - the course would not allow shoes and socks - so you took them off, rolled up your pants legs and headed in. To top it off they did not tell you this until you got there - so you didn't have a chance to bring proper clothes..

We were over two hours in the maze - and although the boys and Pat made it all the way through (meaning that they found their way out) - they missed two of the checkpoints. This, however, still seemed to be considerably better that most of the rest of the people that were there at the same time. Everyone came out muddy - but none of our group did a full-face plant or butt sit - like many of the others were saw. We were still washing mud out between our toes and nails for several days later.