We planned it perfectly and basically had the entire corn maze to ourselves to run helter skelter laughing and screaming joyfully trying to find all the check points and find a way out.
We totally had a blast together and were even able to find all of the check-points, too.
There was a 'sand-box' style corn play area. Funny how my kids don't show much interest in sand boxes, but they were thriled to play in the 'corn box'! hehe Jackson and Connor goofing around together.
All 5 kids 'popping' in the corn.
Starting out....."Children of the Corn".
Punching our cards with the specially shaped punches at one of the Check-points
CORN-erific Kids!
Of course we were excited to see some relatives of our llamas at the petting area. Alpacas are smaller than llamas and don't have those huge banana ears that llamas do, but they are in the same family of camelids that llamas, and also vicunas share.
Silly alpaca!
This guy reminded me of one of the muppets that always has his hair covering his eyes.
Oink!!
If there is a climbable tree in the area, expect to find my kids in it...and our friends, too! Conner is way at the top left side! And of course it was an apple tree, so they gathered up shirt-fuls of apples to share.
Sitting down with apples to munch on the hayride.
Great gathering of the kids. Bummer the sun was blinding them!
Interesting story behind this photo. The kids were running all over the hay wagon, having a great time balancing as the wagon bounced over the rough dirt road. The driver of the tractor turned around once to check on us and asked if we were ok and smiled at the kids having so much fun. He even took us around another corner of the field where the pumpkin patch was, just because the kids asked him for a longer ride.
It got me thinking about how public school field trips would have been so much different. All of the kids expected to march in a row, noone allowed to climb a tree or run around laughing happily. And definetely no running around or standing up in the hay wagon. They would have been yelled at if that would have happened, for sure.
Teachers would expect pandemonium to occur if they allowed the kids to have any freedom. And it probably would have, especially after the kids have been sitting at desks for hours, sitting in buses for an hour or more, and then controlled to walk single-line perfection all throughout the corn maze.
A little while later, the driver of the tractor turned around as he rounded the bend at the front of the corn maze and made a sitting motion to the kids. He showed them with hand motions that eyes might be watching and may not approve, and he didn't want to get in trouble. He never said a word, though. And all 5 of the kids with me sat down politely with huge grateful smiles on their faces.
These kinds of daily experiences just reconfirm our decision to educate our children in our home and a whole world environment.
Gosh, I'm so glad we homeschool our kids.
Playing together in the Corn Crib.
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