Tennis, Lunch, Homebrew Store, and then Uncle Shucks Corn Maze
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Saturday was setup to be a busy day! In the morning the guys had planned to play some tennis while the Alisha and Aubree shopped away at a neighborhood garage sale. Tennis was a blast! Kevin, Mike, Matt, and I had a great time and really enjoyed getting out and playing 2 great sets of tennis. Me and Kevin lost 6-3 6-3 but it was still a bunch of fun!
After tennis, we headed up towards North Point Mall to go to Beer Necessities, the local homebrew store. I needed to buy some lactose (for my stout I am brewing) and a part for my bottle washer. After grabbing those, we headed off to Ruby Tuesday at North Point Mall to meet up with Matt and Laura who were about to head to the mall to shop. We ate lunch and chatted for a while and then we headed back to my house where Alisha and Aubree were hanging out to chill out for a few hours before heading out to Uncle Shucks.
We planned to get to Uncle Shucks around 7:00 so that we could be sure to make it out of the mazes in time for the hayride. As we did last year, Mike and I took a look at the map at the entrance and then headed into the maze. Our goal was to simply find our way out of the maze before the girls could without a map at all. On our way in we ran into a mom with a group of girls that thought that it would be a good idea to follow us through the maze…. Until we told them that we did not even have maps. :crackup: Mike explained that since he designed the maze, he didn’t need a map to get out. They quickly changed routes and went on their own. We ran into them a few more times and found out that we were now named Roberto and Juan which we found very fitting.
As we expected we beat the ladies out of the maze… by more than 20 minutes! In addition we beat the girls out of the maze as well by at least 15 or so. They were dumbfounded to see that we really did make it out without a map on our own. It turns out that the ladies ran into the girls as well while they were in the maze as well and even took some pictures.
We went on to start the second maze which was significantly longer than the first. The ladies said that we cheated on the first one because we did not go to each of the six checkpoints like they did… funny… we didn’t even have a MAP! So we reluctantly agreed that we would hit each of the six checkpoints WITH the map this time and we would still beat them out of the maze. We tore that thing up!!! We ran into the younger girls in the beginning of this maze and they had already gotten to 2 of the checkpoints and we were just starting. They were very excited to know that they were going to beat us on this one. We kicked ASS in this maze and made it out about another 10 – 15 minutes before Alisha and Aubree. They insisted that we cheated but I assure you it was 10000% legit. We just kicked ass! While we were waiting we also saw the girls come out of the maze. We beat them too even though they had a 2 marker lead on us. :crackup:
After the maze, the four of us got together and took pictures with the girls for memories and then headed on to the hayride. We bought some hot chocolates and some funnel cakes and rode through the bumpy ride to the camp fires.
It was a bunch of fun! We all really had a blast. Can’t wait to do Burt’s Farm next month!
