The Fantasy Maze for Halloween 2006

Us southerners are all about a MAZE MAN! We have mazes for everything! Tonight we went to the Fantasy Maze. It was a maze mad out of hay bails that was put on by one of the schools in downtown Chattanooga. On the drive over Polly and I explained to the boys what they were supposed to do with their plastic pumkin candy holders..."say trick or treat and hold out the basket"...."then say thank you, ok?"...they complied on the condition of maximum profits in the form of candy and suckers. So we were all set.


HERE THEY COME!!!


This is actually a picture at the end where they are both comparing who made out better. Jacob has decided he is 4 starbursts, 3 suckers and a tootsie roll ahead of Jonathan and he is adamantly explaining. Jonathan however..slurp...could care less.

The line to the maze was about one football field long. As we passed all the people, they were all talking about my sons. I was very proud of them, as usual. Then once we got inside everyone would say..."look here they come....it's the elephants!"




Each corner you turned had a different theme. This one is sleeping beuty. People were saying that you had to give her a kiss to wake her up and get candy from her....in goes Jake for the kill!!!

Actually, both of them gave her a hug and....dad....aparently fell asleep at the wheel because this picture was almost unsalvagable. Polly fixed it up so you can at least see a glimpse...of Jacobs magic at work...




So the trip around the maze takes about 30 minutes, and it was well worth it. They loved it. And as far as 2 year olds go, they did really well....for about 25 minutes. The last five minutes....well, here's two kids walking around in a maze of hay...with Walt Disney himself throwing candy into their buckets....hang on let me back up...when we first went in, we ran accross Scooby Doo and his buddy Shaggy. They had just gotten a piece of candy from Shaggy when they saw Scoobie. So, what do they do.....they offered Scoobie their sucker! HA! They are so awesome. Anyway, they did have their buckets in hand and Scoobie managed to get a sucker in there.. and soon they kind of got into the swing of things.....walk up ...hold out bucket....PLAMMO!....candy. 25 minutes later....the buckets were in the green wagon dad was toting around and they were frantically ripping into a sucker. No more rules..no more trick or treat..and don't even THINK about putting that freaking orange basket in my face!

So, my point here is that 30 minutes was a perfect amount of time. Just enough time for them to get to see a few people in costumes and control their appetite. If we had been in there any longer, we may have had an incedent.


On the ride home they decided that Elmo was there favorite. So, I may as well slam a picture of him in here, too.

All in all, those "artsy fartsy" kids put on a heck of a show for the kids and we will definitely go back again next year.