This Saturday (10/20/13) Rachel, Meredith, and I took a little jaunt to Frederick, Maryland to frolic through fields of corn and pumpkins. Ultimately, there was a little less frolicking and a little more wandering, but it was a wonderful FALL afternoon! The air was crisp and the leaves were crunchy....just a couple of my favorite characteristics of fall.
We started the afternoon going through a 6 acre corn maze. At the ticket booth we were all given a piece of paper to stamp at the mailbox stations that we found throughout the maze and each stamp was one of 12 pieces to a map. The idea was that after we had found each mailbox we would have a complete map of the maze to help us find our way out. I was confident going into it that it would be challenging, but that we were all smart enough to figure it out together! Well...a solid hour and a half later, we had 9 of our 12 stamps and decided we didn't even care to find the rest; we just wanted to find the exit! And eventually we ended up making our way back out the entrance. Let's just say that maybe corn mazes are more fun as a kid. I might be lacking in the patience department. Ha. 
After making it back to the barn we hopped on a tractor pulled wagon ride that dropped us off in the middle of the pumpkin patch. There were soooo many pumpkins--baby ones, big ones, orange ones, white ones. We took our sweet time to pick the PERFECT pumpkins and then had a mini photo shoot with our fabulous finds. Then we hopped back on the wagon, paid for our pumpkins, and then headed back to DC, but not before stopping for a long awaited dinner at Chili's!
What a happy fall weekend!
