Corn Maze!!

We went to a corn maze!  Yep, a corn maze in Arizona.

  

A local farm called Apple Annie's does one every year and with this year being Arizona's centennial, it was themed as such. 

I took tons of pictures while going through the maze, but, they all look alike.  It's corn...not much to see.

Try to contain your excitement. 

(I have to admit though, I am city girl and can't honestly say I have ever been this close to corn that was not in a store, so it was bit cool for the first few minutes.)

They did have more than one and yes, the "Challenge Maze" was a bit of a challenge.  No, we didn't get lost for hours but there were a few "didn't we just pass this spot?" moments. 

The maze was set up to get you to answer questions about Arizona's history.  So at various spots, you had to pull out the paper and pick a multiple choice answer which determined if you went right or left.  Yeah, I turned into a homeschool lesson.  :)

  Of course, we couldn't leave without buying some dressing or syrup or jelly or something.  They had honey sticks with all kinds of flavors (pink lemonade honey?!), which the kids and the husband tried.  I don't care for honey, so I passed on that. 

But I did enjoy this:

And just because I saw this sign on the way back and couldn't help but smile:

**I also got to check off "visit a corn maze" on my 40 by 40 list!



New direction

The initial reason for this blog was to share travel adventures, accomplishments, etc.  Since I am horrible at blogging and tend to forget about it, it wasn't really as focused as I intended.  Now we are awaiting orders and I have successfully blogged for about a year (don't look like that...a year is a LONG time for me).  So I am going to redirect the blog to where it's supposed to be.  (Yes, the old posts are missing as they were not in line with all of this).

So...

What most people say/think when we say where we live.

Where are we?  At the bottom of Arizona, near the US/Mexican border.  It's the desert and yes, it looks like the desert looks on TV and yes, it's really that hot.  We are up in the mountains though so we get snow in the winter and are cooler than the nearest big city, Tucson.  

No, this is not a field trip.  This is our street.

Going into our neighborhood.

What I see every morning.  Beautiful.

We have tons of wildlife in our housing area.  Bears, mountain lions, javelina, deer, turkeys and bobcats.  This one was just sitting in the grass hanging out.  I didn't dare get close so the zoom on my camera phone had to do the best it could.

So then I said, hey we are in a car...I can get a little closer.  The result is a nice shot of bobcat tail.  

And this is just a normal day riding home.  I never understood phrases like "God's country" or  "untouched natural beauty" until I moved here.