The Maze

Saturday one of our little granddaughters celebrated her 5th birthday.  She told her parents that she wanted a “Dorothy” party.  When they did a little digging they found out that she wanted a “Wizard of Oz” birthday party.  They did a lot of planning and decided to hold the party at a corn maze.  What better place to “follow the yellow brick road” than to wind your way through a corn maze.  I had never been there before but every year around this time you can drive by there and there will be dozens of cars and school buses and hundreds of people wondering around.  Over the years it has grown to include other activities and buildings to hold parties.  Here are a few shots from our delightful evening.

You can see that the corn was pretty tall and we could easily have lost a few kids had we not outnumbered them 2 to 1.  The older siblings had already run off and left us.  These little tikes were having a ball until someone – Masson’s daddy – jumped out of the corn and scared them to death.

This place has to be a virtual money making machine!  There wasn’t much out there that cost too much to build.  The maze, I’m sure, requires planting and watering and then they use a GPS unit on their tractors to carve out the design in the maze.  This is the design they used this year.

This was a hit, for those who could actually climb up on it.  It was kind of slippery on the sides.

This was just some of the heavy duty liner for oil field pits that has been buried in the ground and then has air blown up into it.  Makes a make shift trampoline-type fun thingy. They had a rabbit village – LOL – with buildings and rabbits and the whole works.

There were just kids and parents everywhere and everyone was having a ball.  Wish I had thought about all this……….