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!



Another holiday PCS

We are PCSing (for the non-Army lingo people: Permanent Change of Station...moving) to Ft. Riley.  Don't know anything about Ft. Riley?  Yeah, me either.  Except, that it's in Kansas...and cold...and we are moving in winter.  Sigh.  But, such is life and it could be worse.

I have done some research and apparently the area is great for outdoorsy types.  Yayyy...for someone else.  I am NOT an outdoorsy type.  I am trying to look at the bright side of the picture taking opportunities.  I received a welcome kit from the Geary County Visitor's Bureau and one of the first pages, had a picture of this thing:

I won't type what I said, but it was somewhere along the lines of "what is this?!!".  My animal loving husband said it was a prairie chicken.  Yeah, um, I only like regular chickens when they are cooked and served with rice or something.  I don't want anything to do with this thing.  Then I read that one of the big attractions in the area is prairie chickens and their mating dance/ritual.  Oh fun.

But on the bright side, there is a Joann Fabrics nearby.  There is no way to adequately express how excited I am about this.  Seriously, Wal-Mart is just not doing it for me anymore and we need a break from each other to see other people before it ends horribly and I never set foot in there again.

Kansas State University is nearby and while I am not a big football fan, I think I might enjoy the college town atmosphere again after so many years in Tallahassee.

Oh and there's a Chick-fil-A on the Kansas State campus.  I will SO be there within days of arriving in the area.

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.