Two Saturdays ago we went to a corn maze with our young adult group from church. This wasn't just an ordinary corn maze. Here's a aerial view of the corn maze:
You can probably tell by the awesome design what the shape of the corn maze was! I have no idea how in the world they plant corn this perfect, but I think it's just amazing! This year's maze challenge was to look for six pictures of Viktor, the Viking mascot. If you found these pictures hidden on six of the 26 signs (which had fun facts about the Vikings on them), you could be entered in a drawing for Vikings tickets. We didn't complete the challenge because we only lasted in the maze for about 20 minutes. There was too much more that we wanted to see and do at Sever's Corn Maze. It was also very hot and we were sweating trying to get through the maze. It was not typical fall weather for Minnesota, being in the 90's! One year ago on that same day, we had three inches of snow on the ground in New Hope! Wow!
We enjoyed some food from many of the vendors there. My personal favorite was the slow-roasted sweet corn on the cob and the lemonade. While eating we were able to meet Viktor, the Viking mascot, and two of the cheerleaders. We also enjoyed the sounds of the live music in the background and the kids played on the hay bale maze, which was a great place for our kids to run around in, until Eli, one of the little boys from our group, got lost. He was lost for a good 20 minutes. Apparently he had walked out of the hay bale maze without any of us knowing and walked clear down to the other end of the maze courtyard. It was pretty scary!
After we ate and tried the corn maze, Maida got to ride a pony, and then we went through the petting farm and exotic animal barn. Maida and Skogen were able to feed and pet many of the animals. After seeing the animals, Erik tried the pumpkin slinger.
Here are some pictures from the afternoon (click to make bigger).
The last thing we did before we left was take a dive into the corn pool. It was our very most favorite thing of the day. The corn pool was about three feet deep, made out of 10,000 bushels of corn. It was bigger than an Olympic-sized swimming pool. I've never seen so much corn! It was so nice and relaxing to lay in and fun for the kids to play in, too. I would have been happy to skip everything else at the maze and just relax in the corn all day!
I think our family will be making Sever's Corn Maze a yearly activity!
That sounds like a ton of fun! We took Garrison and Josiah to a place here in Duluth that had a hay maze and a corn "sandbox", which was a lot of fun. But, man, how awesome was the corn box that you went too! The corn was the most fun for us. We sat there for a good 30 minutes and the boys (and Tom and I too) just played in the corn. Who knew corn could be so much fun and nicer to clean up instead of sand.
ReplyDeleteSarah, I saw the pictures on your blog of the corn sandbox and it reminded me of this corn pool, too! While playing in the corn, Erik said that he wanted to get a corn pool in our back yard! Ha! It's amazing how much fun it is and you're right, it is so much nicer to clean up, too!
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