289/365 - Mike's Corn Maze

What a great day we had today!

Since Marley is here for the weekend, we wanted to do something fun today, something "fallish". We decided to go to Mike's Corn Maze in Sunderland, MA. I had heard of this place but had never been there. I guess this farm has been making mazes out of their corn fields since 2000 and every year they have a different design and a different theme. This year's is an art theme. This is an aerial view of the maze and the map that they give you. It is Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup Can picture.





The maze is so big that they have devised a way to make sure everyone is out of the maze at the end of the day. Every group has numbered "flag" to carry and a metal washer that you hang on a big numbered "peg" board when you enter the maze. When you come out of the maze, you place your flag in a big can and take your washer off the board. At the end of the day, they look to see if there are any washers left on the board. It's a pretty good safety measure. Of course, while you are in the maze, if you lose your group members, it could take you forever to find them. That was a little scary to me as Paul just keeps on walking without bothering to make sure Marley and I are behind him (a trait of his that goes way back).



They had ink stamping stations scattered throughout the maze that you used to stamp out famous art pictures. There were sixteen stamping station - four pictures and four colors for each picture.



This is what they came out like.



The maze takes at least an hour to get through. It's a good thing Paul is good at reading maps. We would have been in there a lot longer if it were up to me to find the stamps and then get us out.





Marley liked collecting dried corn off the ground and popping the kernels off.





They have pumpkins for sale, coffee, hot chocolate, warm home-made donuts (they were a big hit) and also winter vegetables for sale.











I think this might have to become a yearly tradition.