Corn Labyrinth

There were some things I wanted to blog about but never got a chance... here is one of them.

Back in August Clint saw an ad in the paper about a cornfield labyrinth. He has seen the ad for the past few years and wanted to go every year. So, this time he asked me about going and we decided to go one Saturday. Our friend Sophia went with us and it was a lot of fun!


Here we are taking a fun group picture! We even found a baby corn for Heidi, but she was more interested in mine. :)


The straw man said to go this way...

Inside the labyrinth there were tasks that we could do. There were several stations that we were supposed to find. Some had questions that we could answer about ostriches and write the answer on the paper we were given at the entrance. (There was also an ostrich farm next to the corn field.) There were stations where we found stamps to use on our papers and when we found all of them, it made a picture of an ostrich. Also, there were stations with different kinds of eggs in them. We had to write down what kind of egg it was. There were eggs from ostriches, emus, chickens, etc. It was fun to try to find all the stations. I think it took us about 1 1/2- 2 hours to find everything and make our way out of the labyrinth! That also included taking a break to feed Heidi and change her diaper. :)


This picture was taken from a tower in the middle of the labyrinth. We climbed up to the top in hopes that we could find our way out, but we couldn't really see the paths at all. The corn was about 10 feet tall!


Also outside of the labyrinth was a flower garden. There were sunflowers, gladiolas, and dahlias. You can also cut some yourself there to take home and I wanted to, but I think by the time we were done with the labyrinth we were all ready to go home. So I just took some pictures and we left. I was pretty happy about this picture of a sunflower that I took. I thought it was really pretty.



HEIDI UPDATE:

Heidi is now showing us her new tricks every day! She waves all the time now. She even shows that she is responding to "Bye" or "Bye-bye" and even today we were at a cafe and a woman left and said "Auf Wiedersehen" in general to everyone sitting in the cafe and she waved at her! (Just for anyone who is interested that is a typical custom here to say hello and goodbye to everyone who is there, even if they are strangers.) Also, I think yesterday for the first time I noticed that she has been clapping her hands! Karen Neel has been singing a song to her that goes like this: "Clap, clap, clap your hands. Clap your hands together." It repeats a couple of times. I started singing that today and she started clapping! She is such a cutie! I hope to get a video of it soon. Tomorrow she will be 9 months old! How can that be?!