Navigating the Corn Maze

Today I went back to the animal shelter to do spays and neuters, which meant that I was home by early afternoon. Jon and I decided to make the most of the extra time and the good weather (cool, sunny, and very windy!) by visiting a corn maze. The Denver Botanical Gardens puts one on every year - this one has a bug theme to advertise a 2007 exhibit. The center of the maze is a huge spider, with its eight legs heading off in different directions through the corn. Jon and I got there about 30 minutes before it opened, so we walked around and saw the pumpkin patch. We were in the first group of people to enter the maze, equipped with 3x5 inch maps (our tickets). The maze was awesome with the wind gusting through the dried-out corn. There were two bridges raised above the corn so you could see the entire maze and get your bearings - it was fun to stand on a bridge and look down on everyone else navigating their way through the maze. Thanks to Jon's superb skills with our tiny map, we made it out of the maze in less than 40 minutes - we think we may have been the first group out! To celebrate, we split a huge roasted ear of corn from one of the vendors there. Yum! =)