Kersey Valley Maize Adventure

Yesterday we spent 4 hours at Kersey Valley!  It was sunny and warm and a beautiful day to spend outside!  It's in High Point, about 30 minutes from our house and has a bunch of fall activities and at night in October has Spooky Woods.  They also have a new zip line.


How tall are we in relation to the corn?  Not very!  Maddox is just short of 3 feet tall.



Here's a picture of the maze.  The green lines are pathways.  There's little tiny red dots, 1-6, that are the different signs that gave you the clues to figure out the crime.  The red bars are a bridge.  It was a Farm Scene Investigation theme and was kind of like Clue.  A picture would have, for example, a llama, with a rope, at the creek and you'd use the hole punch to punch those items out of your card and know that wasn't who commited the crime.  After finding all 6 signs you'd be left with one animal, scene, and item as the answer.  I don't know if it's cheating or smart that we took a picture of the map and would then zoom in on it to figure out where to go next.  It only gave us a general direction to another number since there were so many paths that following one on a map was impossible.  Even following the map it took us about 1 1/2 hours to find all the clues and then our way out.  Maddox had no idea what we were really doing, but she had fun anyway.

 

 This is the jumping pillow!  Groups of kids were let in to jump for 5 minutes at a time so there wouldn't be too many on at once.  Maddox wanted to do it, but wanted to do it only with me.  As it turned out, that was fine.  With all the other kids jumping and bouncing you it got a little overwhelming.  Maddox would not let go of me at all and really enjoyed it for about the first 4 minutes.  She was laughing and jumping.  Then it all became too much and she got overwhelmed and scared.  She'd alternate between laughing and whimpering.  Finally, near the end of our time she got so scared I had to sit down with her and slide down to the sand and get off.  She said "I don't want to jump anymore!" with a few tears in her eyes.

 After the stressful jumping pillow we sat down for a snack and then took a ride on a tram pulled by a tractor.  Maddox thought that was going to be scary and loud (we sat in the first seat right behind the tractor) and kept saying "hold my hand!  Hold it tight!"  She looked worried.  But it was surprisingly quiet and she enjoyed the ride.  Even Jessi got to ride on the seat next to me.

 By the time we got to the pumpkin patch we'd been there for almost 3 hours.  Maddox was tired, hot, and hungry and did not want to cooperate for cute pumpkin pictures.  So we laid Hadlee down and took hers.  Well then Maddox wanted to lay down too and be surrounded by pumpkins.

 The last thing we did was ride the cow train.  Maddox said she really wanted to do it but again would only do it "with Mommy".  We sort of had to wait a long time for our turn.  So we played around, climbed the gate . . .

 Sat down and played some more . . .

 Then it was our turn!  I even got Maddox to hold her hands up like on a roller coaster.  It was pulled by an ATV and weaved back and forth and went over two little fast hills so to her it was sort of like a roller coaster.  She loved it!  After we got done I asked her if she would have done it by herself and she said yes.

 Another fun day in the Schultz family!  Maddox cried when we left and said " I don't want to go bye bye!"  She and I both would love to spend every beautiful warm day playing outside, especially doing farm-like activities!  I think Jeremy was ready to go after about 2 hours. What will we do when winter comes and it's actually cold outside?  I'm sure there will be a lot less fun outings.  But for now, it's time to paint and carve pumpkins!