Corn maze

We went to a corn maze! Having never been to one before, I wasn't sure what to expect. However, the word "maze" made me think that there was an entrance and an exit, and you were supposed to find your way from one to the other, and avoid getting stuck in dead ends and having to backtrack. Maybe there are some like that out there, but at the one we went to, the idea was to find things hidden inside of the maze. We pretty much always knew how to get out, but didn't really know where we were inside of it, or which parts of it we hadn't been to yet. There were lots of paths, and they all looked alike!

We went with two international students who are studying at the university in our town for the year. We've become friends and will miss them when the return to South Korea and Taiwan at the end of the school year! Afterwards we bought pumpkins and then returned home to carve them - more fall fun. It seemed like a good cultural event to introduce our friends to some quirky American things, as well as giving us an excuse to do something we wanted to do, but probably wouldn't do on our own.

Zarya had to go to bed halfway through the carving experience, but every time we go outside, she runs over to the pumpkins and pats the one Andrew did and informs me it's Baba's pumpkin, and then identifies Mama's pumpkin. I guess halfway-carved was enough for her to know whose was whose! Because we are not amazing artists, I'm intentionally not including pictures of our pumpkins here. Whatever you are imaging them to look like is probably better than reality, so we'll leave it at that.