Corn Maze Fun!

Autumn is officially here in Germany!  And with autumn comes all those fun activities that only come around once per year.  With that being said, we decided to take advantage of a beautiful weather day and tackle a Maislabyrinth (aka corn maze)!  We went along with the Lincicums and had a great day!

The girls check out this cool old tractor at the entrance to the farm.

Would love to know how old these tractors are!

This farm had A LOT of pigs!  Leena came to the realization that "pigs really stick"!

 

More pigs!!

Entering the corn maze.  The stalks of corn were at least 7 feet tall and very thick!  We could be in here for a while!

Knepper family corn maze shot!

This question most frequently asked... which way do we go now??  How to decide?  For the first 45 minutes or so, we followed the kids.  The adults decided to take over when we realized that we may never get out!

Our entrance cards into the maze included a "question of the week" for the adults and the kids were told to look for six pigs hidden in the maze and to write their names down.  Our question of the week was "How many km long is the Great Wall of China?".  The answer to the question was found on a sign hidden in the maze.  For those of you who don't know, the answer is 6,700!

We actually found the exit after about 1 hour and 10 minutes in the maze! However, at that time, we had only found five of the six pigs and this was unacceptable for the kids!! So, we stayed in the maze and fortunately found Jule, our final pig, in only about 10 additional minutes or so. After the question of the week was answered and all six pigs were found, we ended up in the maze for about one hour and 20 minutes. The kids had a blast and never once complained of being tired!



The girls loudly rejoiced when they found the final pig, Jule.  Here they are writing the pig's name down on their entrance cards.

Yea!  We are done!!  Now where did we see the exit??

When we finished the maze, we sat down at a picnic table located right outside the exit of the maze to have a snack.  While we were sitting there, we had two different groups of people (both German) come up to us to see if we had found all six pigs.  When we said that we did find all six, they asked to see our entrance cards so that they could write down the names of the pigs that they could not find.  Too funny!  After you finished the maze, you were supposed to drop your completed entrance cards (along with your name and address) into a ceramic milk jug.  I guess they just did not want to return uncompleted cards!