I'll be 45 and still gathering my friends every fall to go to a corn maze. Maybe there'll be kids involved at that point, but you know what? I romanticize and just frankly adore my time with other adults, finding the kids inside ourselves. So maybe when I'm 45, and Matt & Whitney, and all my closest friends, and I have kids, we'll leave them at home, and we and our partners will drive out onto country roads, up to a rustic barn, and do a corn maze with just the adults. That's just the kind of thing that I imagine will keep us young and invigorated for our kids, still so full of life, making dirty puns that stem from nothing but spending time together, reminiscing old memories, and making new ones. We'll grumble even more then about waiting in too-long lines for hot cider and grilled hot dogs - or maybe because we have kids, we'll have learned some patience. We'll pass a bag of kettle corn between us as we hunt through the maize maze with a crayon and a clue sheet, purposefully going the wrong way until we decide it's time to go the right way. We'll take ridiculous photos, and run behind giant stalks of corn to scare the others (and I'll always be the only one scared, even then).
It'll be great when we're 45, just as great as it is right now. It's my favorite fall tradition, started last year and not going anywhere anytime soon.
one year ago: Temple Hall Farm
if you go...
this year we tried Corn Maize in the Plains
tickets: $10
tip: the maze is great, the lines for food are epic, and other attractions are weak
maze: it took us about 40 minutes
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