Xavier Solves the Mystery of the Corn Maze
Greetings to all.
Today, being the last day of Xavier's first Fall Break this school year, and the weather cooperating nicely (it was in the low twenties on Friday with snow and a hard, freeze, but in the mid seventies today), we took Xavier to visit his first corn maze.
We arrived, not expecting much from the maze, but as it turned out, the full maze was over 4 miles, with astronauts and other designs celebrating 50 years since the Apollo Moon Landing.
Not only an interesting maze, but one with a mystery. Seems a dog named Boots was grabbed by a monster and stashed away somewhere.
The goal of the maze, apart from finding all the punch stations, was to find Boots' location, identify the monster who snatched Boots and learn what weapon should be used to defeat the guilty monster.
Xavier engaged far better than Rebecca and I thought he would, especially after finding the first punch card station. He really liked punching his card with the hole punch.
He trooped along, racing ahead even, to get to the next station once Rebecca and I worked out from a map we had where to find it.
It was Rebecca who tired out before Xavier. We spent nearly two and a half hours in the maze. With Friday's high in the mid 20s and today's temperature reaching nearly 80, the heat got to her.
We decided not to hunt the punch stations 1 through 5, which were hidden in the longest part of the maze. We did get all the punches we needed to solve the mystery, however.
We wound our way out of the maze, got in the car and drove through the back pumpkin patches. The hard freeze did not do many of the pumpkins any favors, but several still looked good, at least from the road.
We got out and Xavier hunted the area for any decent survivors. We found four before needing to call it a day. (We a had swim lesson to make).
It was a wonderful afternoon spent with family. Oh, and Arnold grabbed Boots the dog and stashed him in the rain barrel. The Super Soaker defeats Arnold.