more about the pumpkin patch

On Saturday my mom and I went to the Cool Kid Pumpkin Patch.  The first thing we did was the corn maze.  Admission was $12.  We went up to the stand and my mom dropped a $20 bill and I said ‘free money’ and pointed to the $20 and my mom said, ‘maybe somebody dropped it’ and gave it to some random dude named Phil who said, ‘oh, yeah, maybe I dropped it,’ but he didn’t drop the $20 bill.  As my mom realized as we got out of the corn maze as we were buying the snow cones.  Mom had reached into her pocked and her $20 bill was missing and she said, ‘oh, yeah, maybe I did drop that.’

So, we had gotten the maps and mine was marked in pen, mom’s wasn’t.  And mom said we were cheating and I said, ‘no, we would probably get lost’, so we followed the path that was in pen, only to realize we had skipped some important information on the page that said, ‘Read before starting!’  And we were like, oh, well, too late.  The important information said, go to the left for the intermediate route and go to the right for the expert route, and the path was marked to the right so we had accidentally gone on the expert route.  The difference between the two was the expert route took longer and went around the thing and the intermediate route went on the inside.  They said the intermediate route took an hour and the expert route took two hours.  Well, they were absolutely wrong.  Because it took us only and an hour and eleven minutes to finish the expert route.  I think the only reason why it only took us one hour and eleven minutes was because some of it was in pen, otherwise I think it would have taken us an hour and thirty minutes.

One of the rules said, ‘do not litter’ and what did we see in the first five minutes?  Litter!  Another few rules were, ‘do not pick the corn, do not make your own path, and do not call the number 911 if you get lost!’

There were markers that were scattered around the place and there were latitude and longitude and they were all the way to the letters A to Z, AA to OO and numbers 1-35.  So when we got to the end of the pen path, we had to start looking at the map, looking at directions and planning them out.  Then, basically repeat that until we got to the end.  Then, after we got to the second platform, The USS Indy, we had this huge path to get down to the third one, I can’t remember what that one was called, and there was one in the very middle that you never had to go to unless you went on the intermediate route called Starbucks Station.  We thought you could buy Starbuck’s there.  The platform was green.  The other three were, light blue, blue or indigo and red. 

At the end of the corn maze we bought some snow cones and ate them for a while and we saw our neighbor Tito Uquillas, who plays in the band The Hipwaders, who played at the Cook Kid Pumpkin Patch.  There was also this Bar B Que going on but we didn’t really care.  There was also this Corn Bath but we didn’t want to go there.  There was this film crew there and they were shooting a movie and I think they were professional.  They had a drone there and they closed down an area.  We wanted to go to the pumpkin launcher where we could shoot pumpkins at a car, but it was closed down because of the film crew.  And mom got really mad because it was closed down.  She was like, ‘oh, why is the film crew more important than us?’

Then we got in the car and went back home and that was when my mom and I went to the Cool Kid Pumpkin Patch