First time in a Corn Maze

Posted on | September 3, 2007 | No Comments

Friends invited me to the something something annual Edmonton Corn Maze on what would turn out to be an absolutely gorgeous Sunday afternoon in September, and I was ever so excited.

We got there at just after 1 pm and stood in line to pay for our wrist bands. Sunday’s color was a teal like blue. I saved a buck by printing off a $1 off coupon from the maze’s website. What can I say, you save a buck where you can.

Anyway, 3 couples, a few children and myself all entered the maze, and even though I had my ‘cheat sheet’ (aerial map of the layout, with the most direct path marked, I didn’t pull it out) we promptly got lost and separated from one of the other couples.

The course was laid out in two phases, and each phase had 5 markers to help you on the right path. The passports were questions to help guide you.

Between the 5 or 6 different passport sheets I had picked, we were able to find at least one question for each marker that we felt between the 5 adults could answer with some certainty.

We caught up with the other couple at the half way point. Even though we tried to keep to the ‘left-handed’ maze rule, we took a few wrongs turns.

After about an hour or so we made it to the second bridge and got a chance to overlook the entire maze. Doesn’t much look any different from just a regular field of corn, but you could see the other bridge and part of the areas that had been pulled away to make the path of the maze.

We finished the maze in about an hour and a half. And unfortunately for me, I was totally not dressed for being in a narrow, warm field of corn. Dark brown, long sleeved heavy shirt, heavy long jeans and a nice pair of black boots on what I thought would be a mild, moderate day of about maybe 60 something and was instead 73F.

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