19 October 2008

Eliza and Sarah


Eliza and Sarah
Originally uploaded by Mark Waite
Before the corn maze trip, Eliza and Sarah were playing on their couch, having fun and snuggling.

Heather & Heidi at the Anderson Farms Corn Maze

Ben and Sarah gave Heather and Heidi a birthday present trip to the corn maze at Anderson Farms outside Longmont, CO. We spent 3+ hours wandering through the maze on Saturday with Sarah, Ben, Eliza, Coleen, Mark, Jaron, Heather, and Heidi.

Eric and Alan were on a scout outing, attending the Longs Peak Council's annual "turkey shoot" at Ben Delatour Scout Ranch. No turkeys are harmed in the annual "turkey shoot", in case there is any question...

Heather and Heidi initially took off through the maze at a dead run, leaving us all behind. The rest of us took a leisurely stroll through the western section of the maze.

About 45 minutes into the walk, Heather and Heidi called to find us. We met at the central entrance and started a more structured hike through the maze. The maze contains 18 stations scattered throughout the corn, each with a paper punch that can be used to mark the map card. We completed 12 of the 18 locations before we were too tired to continue.

Anderson Farms is a working farm, so they had all sorts of interesting and useful things at the farm (like ducks, and goats). It is converted to an entertainment center for a 2 month period at the end of each crop season. I suspect they make more from the entertainment center period ($10 per person, hundreds of people visited the day we were there) than from the farming. No problem, either way, since we easily got our $10 per person worth in family fun.

They also have a web site which describes some of their activities.