Sunday, October 11, 2020

FCC Kids made a comeback this week. It was different than in the past, and will be going forward for the time being as well. It looks like it'll just be once a month; not sure what exactly we will do when we have to be inside. But this week was bike night. Kids brought their bikes and there was a bunch of activities for them. Racing, safety demos, and the like. I was manning the obstacle course; my job was to time the kids as they went through it (it wasn't that hard). It was well attended, but we were outside so I think everything was fine.....Saturday Beth and I got up early to go view Alex's senior portraits, but it turned out we got the date wrong, it's next week. Later on we all wanted to go do something, but what we found took a lot longer to get there than to actually do it. We went to a corn maze. We tried to go to the same maze we went to a few years ago down near Mentone (Goshert Farms) but when we got there we found nothing. I had even looked it up online and found announcements about it but the barn where they had the shops set up was empty, and even though there was a sign that said "corn maze," the field right behind it was also empty. Harvested. So I'm not too sure what went on there, but I guess all the web pages I found were from previous years. So with tears in our eyes we turned around and headed towards Knollbrook Farms, near Goshen. Our GPS took us on what it may have thought was the shortest route, but it went through the country and turned every half mile or so. Not sure how long it took to get from one corn maze to the other, but quite a while. When we got there, there was quite a crowd, one that Natalie could not deal with so she went back to the car just as soon as we got tickets (I did find a super saving social deal for half price on 4 tix, and bought it while waiting in line). So the rest of us went and did some pumpkin slingshot and then walked the corn maze, which wasn't very difficult (more of a path than a maze). We might have stayed there for a grand total of half an hour, which was a shorter time than we had been driving.....Today Missy and Katherine went to Goodwill to do some shopping (just looking for something fun). After I dropped them off I found a jacket for Alex's Halloween costume and a really nice winter coat. A Columbia coat for $25, pretty much brand new. Missy came home later with a little wooden elephant she had found.