So awesome huh. I was stoked, when the idea came up to go for our combined ym/yw activity. Next year we'll probably plan something else. First of all, taking 29 twelve to eighteen year olds anywhere is hard work. The fine people at Cornbelly's know that, so they give you a very serious talking to before entering the maze. It seems that they have some experience with church groups and apparently church groups are trouble. There is no running, no picking corn, no eating corn (really?!) and most importantly no throwing corn. Oh and don't cut through the maze. The guy was really serious. He didn't smile once.There are several options for exploring David Archuleta's head and torso. Feeling confident, we went for the more difficult option number two. That was our first, of many, mistakes. In order to complete the maze the way it was intended you must find various numbered markers and correctly answer the trivia question. I figured that since half of the girls intend to marry him they would be Archuleta experts. Not so, after last night, I don't think any of our girls can legitimately consider themselves "arch angels," let alone future Mrs. Archuletas.
We found our first number fine but it was all down hill from there. We found markers just not in order. We eventually gave up the whole find the marker idea in favor of just wandering. Wandering is a good plan if you like to back track and go in circles. But isn't that the fun of a corn maze? It might have have been fun except that it was cold and there were other youth groups (not ours) running around and throwing corn. I got a cob right across the face.
Eventually we figured out that the answers were printed upside down along the bottom of the page. How ingenious. But knowing the correct answers is useless if you can't find the markers and if you don't know the difference between right and left. We followed another smarter group around and finally found a bridge where we could see the way out. It only took us 1 hour and 45 minutes. Is that bad?
