Mmmmm, Halloween Outdoors
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Sep 25, 2009
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The Plains, Virginia
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Corn Maze in the Plains
We got there later than we'd intended, so the jugglers and buskers there for Halloween had pretty much packed up by the time we arrived. But we got to try the pumpkin slingshot, which is exactly what it sounds like: take a mini pumpkin, put it in the sling, and see how far you can get it to fly. My record was about 150 meters. Not bad!
The main attraction, though, was the maze itself. Five acres of winding paths made by corn stalks, with clues along the way. I kept waiting for the Harry-Potter-esque monsters to come out and duel, but I think they were on strike. We made it through the maze in about 45 minutes, and the maze monitor whose job it is to fetch the people who are hopelessly lost, was impressed. She said the average was an hour to an hour and a half.
Following the maze we went around the barnyard and saw the various goats and chickens, and I picked out a medium-sized pumpkin as a test subject for my culinary experiments. Then we discovered the market, where we all went nuts on apple and pumpkin butter, kettle corn, organic raw honey, pumpkin pie, and fudge. We forcibly pried ourselves away from the displays before buying everything in sight, and we spent most of the hour drive back to DC munching on fudge and kettle corn. So much for not having a sugar coma, but at least it was induced by something besides candy bars.
In the evening, we dressed up and went to the party at a local art center. We listened to the music, looked at some very skull-heavy art, and chatted until it was time to go home. All in all, a very pleasant Hallowe'en.
