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5 arrived, 4 went in and only 3 came out. OK, so here's the scoop. Yesterday, my parents, aunt and uncle and I went to another corn maze. This particular one was in St. Charles County and it was a locomotive theme. 1 person chose not to go into the maze and another quit before we were done (though we commend them on sticking it out as long as they did). We began with a piece of paper with 18 questions (which we had to get the answers to), pictures that had to be found and so forth. None of the items were in order. For instance, the answer to question 2 was not near the answer for question 1 yet 11 was. Fortunately, we had a map to tell us where each number was-it was just a matter of getting there. We were nearly to the end but we still had several items missing. As we looked at the map, we realized those items were all towards the beginning of the maze. We had to walk all of the way back through the maze to get those last few items. We came out at the entrance and one of the workers said, "Did you all do the corn maze because you're coming out where you started?" He was sure we must not have finished. We showed him our paper with each item completed and explained that we somehow had missed the first few things (we were not looking at the map when we began) and had to work our way back to them. He was rather impressed. He said very few people ever complete the entire thing. My Aunt Cindi said she thought the paper said that if you complete it all you get a free hamburger (it did not). The worker went and told the girls working the food counter to give each of us something for free! We definitely got our exercise in. The trail all around is 8 miles and of course, we certainly did not go down every path to complete 8 miles but we did walk a good bit and even backtracked. We were in there for about 1 hr. and 45 min. Once we were done finding our way through the maze and learning all about steam engines and railways, we met up with the 2 that were out waiting and we all went for a short hayride. I hope to return to this particular farm next year as I felt they had set things up really well. They said they are considering making the maze the state of Missouri next year and the checkpoints will be different cities in MO. So, 2 corn mazes in 2 days for me. I think I have 1 more that perhaps I'll try out next weekend.
