Trip To The Haunted Corn Maze

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007 - The CBYF took a trip to the Haunted Corn Maze in Dixie, LA. We left Calvary BC at 3:20. The group that we took was eager with anticipation to get there. We went into Shreveport and at Whattaburger. This is the place of the "Double Meat, Double Cheese" saying. The stop was well worth it. Everyone thought their meal was excellent. We didn't understand why they gave us a number. We were the only ones inside. We got the number the way the do at Western Sizzlin' or Bonanza. After a time of fellowship, we loaded into the van and returned to Dixie.

We got to the Maze well before dark. We thought it would be good to go into Phase I of the Maze. This turned out to be more than we bargained for. After about 30 minutes, we finally made our way out of the maze. It is amazing how many times you can go in circles when you don't know where you are!

We then took the Hayride. This turned out to be nothing more than a good time of eating dust. We were herded into the trailer like cattle being lead to the Livestock Auction. We rode this until the sun went down. Then it was time for the MAIN EVENT.....The HAUNTED CORN MAZE!!!

We got in line, and waited. They were sending groups in 5-6 at a time. After 35 minutes in line, we made it to the front of the line. The group that I went in with was Austin, Jennifer, Jessi, Christy, and Chase (he's only 6 years old). The first "monster" to jump out us, Chase simply says, "Hey." You know, just a casual conversation with a monster in a corn maze. I was shocked that it didn't affect him any more than it did. There were several times when Austin, Jennifer, and Jessi were so scared that they were running through the maze. The highlight of the evening was probably when the Hannibal Lecter character stepped out in front of Austin. We were not allowed to touch the monsters and they were not allowed to touch us. Well, Austin had no time to avoid him. He basically tackles the guy, but he didn't stay around to find out if he was OK. Austin was out of there so fast. I didn't know that he could move that fast.

About halfway through the maze, Austin, Jennifer, and Jessi got so scared that they took off and left us behind. At this point, Kaitlin had joined us. She was a little scared. As we were completing our time in the maze, two monsters stepped out and scared Kaitlin. I said, "Keep moving, Kaitlin." The monster heard her name and continued to say her name as we were trying to get away. "The best is yet to come, Kaitlin." he said. It was great. Afterwards, she thought that it was fun when she thought about it.

While we were there, we had an interesting game of Tether-ball. I hadn't played that in quite some time. It is very tiring. We laughed all the way home on the Church van. It was a very good outing for the CBYF. We will definitely do something like this again.