Cookies, Et Cetera

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The image here is from the cookies we made at Easter.

Richardson Corn Maze

This past Saturday Lorrie and I went out and solved the Chicago Baseball Maze at Richardson Corn Maze. They stay open until 2AM on weekends when there is a full moon. We found all 24 checkpoints in the maze. In my opinion the "Ivy" maze was the hardest because everything was curved and it had shorter walls so it was tougher to translate between the map and what you actually saw. In fact we did get "lost" in that maze. Point 21 is just below the "S" in Cubs. We found that no problem. The next point we wanted to find was point 22, which was just below the "C" in Cubs. After going a little bit to where I thought (I was reading the map through this part of the maze) point 22 was, we did find a point. It was point 23 which was in the lower left hand corner of the map, just left of the baseball player's foot. Whoops!

Facts about the Chicago Baseball Maze from their website:

• The Chicago Baseball Maze has 4 separate mazes covering 28.5 acres.
• The “Ivy” Maze is 2.1 miles of trail – 6 checkpoints, 30 – 40 minutes to solve.
• The “Glove” maze is 0.8 miles of trail – 4 checkpoints, 15 – 20 min. to solve.
• The “Cubs” maze is 3.8 miles of trail – 7 checkpoints, 45 – 60 min. to solve.
• The “Sox” maze is 4.0 miles of trail – 7 checkpoints, 60 – 90 min. to solve.
• Within the mazes are 24 checkpoints (a wooden post along the trail) with a different shaped hole-punch at each station. Guests keep track of their progress through the maze by punching the numbered holes along the bottom of the map, which you receive with admission. Solving the maze becomes a game by seeing how many checkpoints you can find. If you find any 20 checkpoints, take the map to the information center for a priceless, full color, suitable-for-framing Certificate of Completion.

All in all it was a lot of fun. A little chilly that night but they sell hot chocolate and hot cider and provide a number of campfires so you do get a chance to warm up. It did have that spooky children of the corn vibe being out in a cornfield hearing people yelling and only seeing dried corn stalks and darkness.