Another Festival

On Saturday afternoon, after watching Kendall and Lynnsey's soccer games (a future blog), we headed over to another Albion festival. This time is was the A-Mazing Corn Harvest. Smaller than the Festival of the Forks, it was still a really fun time. They had lots of vendors selling all sorts of arts and crafts, there were Civil War reinactments, campfire and dutch oven cooking demonstrations, a farmer's market, jumping castle, kids crafts, wagon rides, and of course the corn maze. Here is everyone at the entrance to the corn maze. You'll notice the absence of Kalen who had to miss the festivities because he tore a muscle in his calf the other night at his community soccer game and so he had to stay home nursing his injury. And I, of course, am missing from the picture as well since I am the one taking it (with Kaya strapped to me in her sling which is why you never see picture of her at these sorts of outings either). Anyway, the maze really was quite challenging to get through with all sorts of dead ends. It's really easy to see how a person could get lost forever in a cornfield--at least until harvest time!

Spencer had a great time hunting for ears of corn along the way. He'd have gotten more, but he couldn't fit anymore in his arms. When we got home he promptly put them on display on our book case and won't let me move them because they're his "special corns".

After we had seen and done all we wanted to, we drove back out to the cornfield and watched them harvest all the corn. After watching the big machinery plowing down all of the corn stalks, Kendall remarked: "I'm sure glad we found our way out of there!"