…a wonderful way to spend a Sunday
A colleague of mine at the DNR is a professional clown part-time (not the bad kind). His hair is never the same color two days in a row, and he creates the most amazing balloon sculptures ever. Last year, he gave me a couple of free passes to a local corn maze, which Brian, Mekhi and I loved going through. The theme of the 2015 maze was the Aesop Fable, “The Fox and the Grapes.” After we arrived home, I gave Mekhi my copy of Aesop’s Fables that were given to me at school when I was ten years old.
This year’s maze was called “Rainbows, Kittens, and Killer Baby Unicorns.” Brian wasn’t sure if his 51-year-old ankles would make it through, but I reminded him that the maze isn’t as big as it looks (I was right). I didn’t time us because that would not have been fun. Each of us took turns being the “navigator” with the map, and Mekhi was the best at finding the mailboxes that store the next piece of the map. We passed other groups traversing the maze, and one pair of young boys (also about ten each) were very good at following the map. One of them wore a Packer jersey, and when I was navigator, I kept suggesting that we “follow Jordy.” It worked.
I never did see my colleague, who was there in his clown persona, but I did see people wearing his balloon art, specifically a tiara and a flower bracelet.
Afterwards, we bought snacks (mine was a caramel apple sans nuts), and sat for a while. Mekhi didn’t seem too interested in doing some of the activities that we did last year, such as seeing the baby chicks and bunnies on the farm. I insisted upon going to the kitten house, which had a line. I was minorly disappointed that only three kittens were inside, but I did hold one of them. I asked Mekhi if anything was wrong, and he steadfastly said no. Brian was concerned that Mekhi didn’t want to be with us, but Mekhi felt he needed to be home with Mom #1 to help her clean house and prepare for home inspections (they live in Section Eight Housing).
So Brian and I took Mekhi to home #1. En route, Mekhi asked us to help him find the letter J because he was playing the Alphabet Game (albeit with much easier rules than listed in the link). We played it cooperatively until we reached Z and Mekhi’s home #1.
Brian and I decided to spend the afternoon watching the NFL RedZone and taking a nap with a lot of critters in our bed. Felt. Damn. Good.
Pog ma thoin!
-Lori
“Other Staff issues: For future reference – do not sneak up on Tosh wearing a clown mask, for a laugh. She does NOT find this amusing.” – Torchwood’s Captain’s Log entry 17
