Corn-ophobia

Friday night Danielle and I decided to jump into the Halloween festivities a week early by going down to the corn maze at Thanksgiving Point. The attraction reminded me a lot of the Puyallup Fair actually. There were games (mainly tether ball-it's really not as much fun when you can actually reach the top of the pole), food, and three different mazes.

Right by the entrance was the 'Jack-O-Lantern Tree.' The pumpkin carvings were extremely intricate and very beautiful. If you look closely, you will see Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, the statue of liberty, the liberty bell, and Albert Einstein (just to name a few) immortalized in various pumpkins.

The first maze that Danielle and I went to was called 'The Creature' which was an inflatable beast that you would walk into through the mouth and then attempt to navigate to the end (which was near the tail, ironically) in complete darkness while employees dressed as half-digested monsters jumped out at you from various corners. On our first attempt, Danielle and I didn't even make it around the first corner. We were the only people walking through the maze and while I pride myself as being someone not easily scared by 'spooky mazes,' having your friend scream, dig her fingernails into your neck, and push you in front of her with all her might around a dark corner into the unknown is a little unnerving. We ended up running back to the entrance and waited there until a large group came and politely let them go in before us.

There were two corn mazes at Thanksgiving Point. One was "haunted" and cleverly named 'Cornophobia.' It wasn't so much a maze, but rather a long trail with chainsaw wielding Leatherface wannabes sneaking up behind you (sorry, no pictures of that...oh darn).

The main corn maze covered twelve acres and was shaped...wait for it...after the image of "Utah's very own idol," David Archuleta (you know, the sixteen-year-old Mormon kid who lost American Idol). The maze was actually a lot of fun, very confusing and slightly frustrating, but fun. It got even more interesting when Danielle decided she would try to be funny ('try' being the operative word) and run around the corner, get behind me, and scare me. However, she didn't realize that the corner she thought went in a circle and would therefore spit her back out behind me actually didn't meet back up with the main trail at all. She and I soon became hopelessly separated. It gets better...she wanted to leave her purse in the car, so I was carrying both of our cell phones and the car keys. Yeah. We were able to find each other about an hour later.