Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Corn, Carvings, and Crunchy Leaves

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!


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