The Haunted Maze

Terry and I took the kids to the Haunted Corn Maze. We went along with a bunch of other people from our town including a bunch of teenagers. Triston and Tara walked into the area all tough and ready. They kept talking about the glow sticks that we are given for the walk. If you want to be really scared you get a green stick and if you are a little unsure, you should take the pink one. With the pink one, you will see the monsters and such but they will not actually touch you and the entire experience will be less terrifying. So anyways, all day and all the way there they are determined that they want green sticks. I knew better and requested all pink sticks. The teenagers and everyone else except Lorrie, who was stuck with us, chose the green sticks. We went in with groups of 4 or 5. I was in a group with Terry, Tara, Triston, and Lorrie.

Right before we went in, we could here some of our teenagers screaming. They were only in the maze for about 2 minutes and seemed to soon for such a major scare. The gentleman helping us with our sticks looked a little concerned and decided to walk in the maze to check on the kids. He found them a few feet into the maze in a pile. They spooked themselves and one fell on another and before you knew it, they were all on top of each other. Sounds really funny but Taylor did get hurt pretty bad. Someone's knee hit her in the face.

After that was cleared up, it was our turn. Good thing I insisted on the pink sticks because both Triston and Tara started panicking even before we stepped into the corn. Tara was the most hysterical. She held onto both me and Lorrie. She held us very close. Triston held my other hand but stood right in front of me and very close. Tara made her dad go in front. This was a very difficult walk. We were stepping on unsteady ground with the occassional cob on the ground and we had to walk sideways because it wasn't wide enough to hang onto the kids and walk side by side.

Terry screamed once when a head fell from above and right in front of him. Monsters looked at us and at one point, Triston says to me, "Mom, that one is following us" and that scared him really bad. Because we had the pink stick, most of them let us just walk on by. One of the monsters didn't notice we had pink and he jumped out at us and Tara screamed and jumped. Her entire body trembled.

Did I mention that Tara began crying as we entered the maze and didn't stop the entire time? I once said to her "Shhh, we are almost done, please stop crying" and Triston immediately spoke up, "No Tara, don't stop crying, I think it's helping them not scare us so bad."

It was an experience and I am so glad Lorrie got to experience it with us. Yeah, and, thanks for your help Lorrie! Not sure if we would have made it through without you :)

On our way home we talked about the maze. I asked them if they would want to do it again next year and Tara said Maybe but Triston said no way. Triston said "It's overrated." We all laughed. The teenagers talk about this scary stuff all the time. They think its great. My little ones want to be a part of anything the teenagers do but Triston now thinks that some of their stories are way overrated and he will no longer think that they know everything.