We didn't tell the kids where we were going, only that we were going, "Somewhere special." First we stopped off at Hungry Hobo (our local sub shop) for some lunch. The kids were in a good mood because of the road trip, even though they didn't even know where they were going.
Once we got there we checked out the flea market, which had some interesting things but nothing that sparked my interest. Then we headed to the ticket booth to get the kids some passes for the festivities. For $10 each they got to check out almost everything once. It was a pretty good deal considering the individual prices.
First they rode on the cow train. This was driven by a guy on a tractor wearing a bright pink curly wig. Emily carefully chose her cow. Of course it's name was Jelly Bean. Once they took off the guy headed down the road where we couldn't see them and I told Adam, "Did we really just put our kids in metal cars driven by THAT guy??"
"Yep."
"Ok then."
After that Emily and Blake entered the corn picking contest. Emily snagged a whopping 11 ears of corn. Blake aka: me, got 6.
From there we headed to the giant bouncy thing and then the kid's corn maze. This place also has one of those ginormous haunted corn mazes for adults. Here's a picture of this year's maze.
It is over one mile of trails. Adam is thinking about working at it this year. I think he'd have a blast. The kid's maze, however, is a lot less intimidating, a whole lot smaller, and there's really just one path around. One entrance that also serves as the exit so you can't really lose a kid in there. Which is good because I'm sure we would have otherwise. There are a few creepys in there though, like this guy:
We were also a little bummed that we had already eaten because much to our surprise they were grilling out some of the most fantastic food. Adam couldn't pass up a pulled pork sandwich, which he shared with me while the kids were bouncing. It was awesome! Stuffed full of pork and just really good. Yum! We were joined for lunch by this stick bug.
To make your time at Country Corners more enjoyable they had a down-home band. I wish I could remember the name of them so I could give them proper credit but they were great and you could tell they all enjoyed playing together.
I didn't get any pictures but the kids also shot corn out of a cannon and then Adam did the pumpkin chuck, which was basically shooting tiny pumpkins with a big sling shot.
While we waited for the announcement of the winners of the corn picking contest we posed for some photos.
Here I'm asking Emily if she thinks she's going to win the contest.
After that Adam just had to get his hands on one of those cows. You know only a cow named Bertha would be willing to let Adam ride on her.
Finally they got around to announcing the contest winners. We headed to the stage where the band was and they said there was a three-way tie for first with Emily being one of them! They listed off the rest of the names and the band made snarky comments about it being all girls. I know that's right! Because of the tie they drew names for the three prizes and Emily ended up in 3rd. She missed out on the cool basket full of goodies and ended up with a painted pumpkin. Here you can see her look of dislike.
After the announcements the band continued to play and Emily and her daddy danced for a bit and soon she was smiling again.
We made our way out through the country store filled with lots of goodies. We took home a gallon of the best tasting apple cider I've ever had. Adam had already drank about 5 glasses of it while we were there. I also picked up some awesome salad dressing. It's burgundy poppy seed. Something I would have never bought if they wouldn't have had samples of it for you to try. I bought a couple pears and grabbed some free apples and we headed home. It was an awesome experience and one I hope we can do again in a couple weeks.
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