Maze Corned!
Sep. 21st, 2019 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYup, went off to West End Creamery today to do their corn maze -- which turned out to be the main attraction of a whole "Fall Festival" thing they were doing (there were also pony rides, a "Blast Zone" where people fought with guns that shot foam balls, some sort of tractor ride, a face-painting stand -- the works for a little kid). We got the wristband that let us do the corn maze, and mini-golf for an extra five bucks. Spent a good three, three-and-a-half hours there, doing the following:
Corn Maze: Fun! If HOT -- the temperatures got well into the 80s today, and it was a strong sun. I'm glad I wore my adventure hat! Also, the sign at the front was a little misleading -- it said to wait OUTSIDE the maze for an attendant to give you the "stalk talk" for navigating the maze, but the actual talk is given in a little clearing with benches just inside the entrance. We all waited ten minutes before someone ventured inside and figured out what was going on. *shakehead* But the actual maze itself was a great little adventure. This year's offering was a thank you to Rob Gronkowski, the retired Patriots tight end who was kind of a fan favorite -- from the air, the maze looks like a football player in Gronk's jersey, 87, catching a football. :p From the ground -- well, it's a lot of corn and a lot of dirt. And one little bridge, where it really sinks in just how BIG the maze is. They also hid football facts (some just generally about football, some Patriots-specific) in the maze for people to find -- if you got all ten and punched the appropriate phrases around the edge of your map, you could put it in a drawing for a gift card once you got out of the maze. Unfortunately, we only got five. Ah well. There were also "passport stations" -- random numbered poles that matched up with number questions on a quiz you picked up at the beginning of the maze (there were a variety of them on different topics -- Mom grabbed us both a Gronk one and an American History one so we could double-check and cross-reference our answers). You consulted the matching question and figured out which way to go based on your answer. We managed to get them all right, so yay for us. (The fact that we ended up backtracking on ourselves briefly was entirely due to us missing a turning near the top of the maze. XD) So yeah -- fun time, and I'd do it again! Just maybe with a water bottle next time. Or on a cooler day.
Ice Cream: Did I mention it was hot? Yeah, we decided we needed ice cream between the maze and mini golf. Mom got her usual cone of coffee with jimmies; Dad got a hot fudge sundae with pistachio ice cream; and I got a brownie sundae with peanut butter cup ice cream (which was chocolate with a peanut butter swirl). Delicious~ But then again, the place is still technically a dairy farm, so what do you expect?
Mini Golf: Once ice cream was done, we hit the links! So to speak, anyway. And I SWEAR they've changed the course a bit -- the first hole now has a pipe section you can go down that I do not remember being there before! Huh. . . Anyway, we all had some good holes and some bad ones, though we all managed at least one hole-in-one, so that was nice. :) And I came in second place when I thought I was gonna be last, so that was good too. :D
With all that covered, we headed home, turned the AC on, then had a late lunch while watching a LEGO Batman offering -- not LEGO Movie Batman, the more standard one. Though he was ALMOST as goofy as the LEGO Movie Batman. . . Anyway, it was a cute little piece about the Bat Family, and Batman learning that his secret identity as Bruce Wayne shouldn't be shoved aside for more Batman time, and that he needs to acknowledge that sometimes he can be a jerk and drive people away. Via the medium of LEGO Red Hood and LEGO Brother Eye attacking the city. Yeah, Gotham nearly went up in non-LEGO flames. Fun stuff, though unfortunately the DVD had a MAJOR skip in it and we missed a good chunk of the middle bit. Bleh. >( But then again, my parents basically slept through it anyway, sooo. . .
After that, we all transitioned into hanging out mode -- I caught up on some stuff online, then moved onto playing some Fallout 4! Did not get to Diamond City -- mostly because I made the possibly-stupid decision to check up on some settlements that the game was telling me didn't have enough of something or other. Turns out that was just the game glitching -- but then two of the settlements got ATTACKED by super mutants (one by a super mutant wielding a ROCKET LAUNCHER) and I had to help them fight those off. At least I leveled up? *sigh* I also managed to switch on the lights in the Castle, though I don't know how to bring someone there so they can help gather food for the radio man stationed there. Meh. As it stands, I'm trying to concentrate on one final mission before I go to Diamond City -- a kidnapping mission that, even if it isn't time-sensitive, feels like it should be. Met up with the panicked husband -- now I just have to go rescue the wife, bring her home, and then I am back on the road to plot.
I also watched two YouTube videos:
A) Jay from the Kubz Scouts playing some random games -- what LOOKED like a horror game, but which had a cute twist; an unfinished weird "hugging" game; aaaand Imagine Lifetimes! Of course, unlike Gray, he played it properly, so I got a good view of what the game is like when you're NOT messing around and killing yourself by studying drinking in college. :p Jay seemed to have a decent life! Though his reaction to the skull just suddenly appearing on the chair at the very end was very amusing. XD
B) The final set of Metro Exodus from Helloween4545! Which consisted in part of a four-minute summary of a bunch of footage Helloween recorded without realizing a recent Windows update had deselected all his sound stuff, and that he couldn't redo because the game has hard autosaves instead of letting you save where you want. Meeeh -- but it saved us from having to watch some parts with motion sickness flashing-lights and the like, so I won't complain too much. And we got to watch the rather touching ending where Artyom gets himself irradiated to within an inch of his life to get the medicine to save Anna, and his brothers-in-arms all give him a massive blood transfusion to save him. And hooray, Helloween managing to save/keep two out of the three companions who could leave/die at different points in the game got him the good ending where Artyom lives! :) He rated the final game a 6/10 -- it's a buggy mess, and he feels that the open world areas were a wrong direction, gameplay-wise, for this series, but he enjoyed the story and genuinely cared what happened to the characters. So that was good. Just gotta wrap up Dead Space 2's replay now. . .and then, we wait to end his official LPing on Bloodlines 2 next year. At least we'll always have his archived stream footage. . .
And I got up the next Scene From Secundus: An Unwelcome Reaction That Way, Nell's POV on the whole "telling Victor about his upcoming arranged marriage" bombshell. Carefully rewritten to match the previous week's story, of course. Rather like this one -- I think it shows off Nell's character very well. Social standing above all! Also she doesn't really care for her son as he is and it shows. Being disowned was probably the best thing to ever happen to this Victor. . .
Anyway! I'm still getting my VictorLuvsAlice queue sorted, and the stuff in my inbox, so I'll be off now. Less-busy day tomorrow, what with it being football Sunday -- hopefully it'll be a good game! Night all!
Corn Maze: Fun! If HOT -- the temperatures got well into the 80s today, and it was a strong sun. I'm glad I wore my adventure hat! Also, the sign at the front was a little misleading -- it said to wait OUTSIDE the maze for an attendant to give you the "stalk talk" for navigating the maze, but the actual talk is given in a little clearing with benches just inside the entrance. We all waited ten minutes before someone ventured inside and figured out what was going on. *shakehead* But the actual maze itself was a great little adventure. This year's offering was a thank you to Rob Gronkowski, the retired Patriots tight end who was kind of a fan favorite -- from the air, the maze looks like a football player in Gronk's jersey, 87, catching a football. :p From the ground -- well, it's a lot of corn and a lot of dirt. And one little bridge, where it really sinks in just how BIG the maze is. They also hid football facts (some just generally about football, some Patriots-specific) in the maze for people to find -- if you got all ten and punched the appropriate phrases around the edge of your map, you could put it in a drawing for a gift card once you got out of the maze. Unfortunately, we only got five. Ah well. There were also "passport stations" -- random numbered poles that matched up with number questions on a quiz you picked up at the beginning of the maze (there were a variety of them on different topics -- Mom grabbed us both a Gronk one and an American History one so we could double-check and cross-reference our answers). You consulted the matching question and figured out which way to go based on your answer. We managed to get them all right, so yay for us. (The fact that we ended up backtracking on ourselves briefly was entirely due to us missing a turning near the top of the maze. XD) So yeah -- fun time, and I'd do it again! Just maybe with a water bottle next time. Or on a cooler day.
Ice Cream: Did I mention it was hot? Yeah, we decided we needed ice cream between the maze and mini golf. Mom got her usual cone of coffee with jimmies; Dad got a hot fudge sundae with pistachio ice cream; and I got a brownie sundae with peanut butter cup ice cream (which was chocolate with a peanut butter swirl). Delicious~ But then again, the place is still technically a dairy farm, so what do you expect?
Mini Golf: Once ice cream was done, we hit the links! So to speak, anyway. And I SWEAR they've changed the course a bit -- the first hole now has a pipe section you can go down that I do not remember being there before! Huh. . . Anyway, we all had some good holes and some bad ones, though we all managed at least one hole-in-one, so that was nice. :) And I came in second place when I thought I was gonna be last, so that was good too. :D
With all that covered, we headed home, turned the AC on, then had a late lunch while watching a LEGO Batman offering -- not LEGO Movie Batman, the more standard one. Though he was ALMOST as goofy as the LEGO Movie Batman. . . Anyway, it was a cute little piece about the Bat Family, and Batman learning that his secret identity as Bruce Wayne shouldn't be shoved aside for more Batman time, and that he needs to acknowledge that sometimes he can be a jerk and drive people away. Via the medium of LEGO Red Hood and LEGO Brother Eye attacking the city. Yeah, Gotham nearly went up in non-LEGO flames. Fun stuff, though unfortunately the DVD had a MAJOR skip in it and we missed a good chunk of the middle bit. Bleh. >( But then again, my parents basically slept through it anyway, sooo. . .
After that, we all transitioned into hanging out mode -- I caught up on some stuff online, then moved onto playing some Fallout 4! Did not get to Diamond City -- mostly because I made the possibly-stupid decision to check up on some settlements that the game was telling me didn't have enough of something or other. Turns out that was just the game glitching -- but then two of the settlements got ATTACKED by super mutants (one by a super mutant wielding a ROCKET LAUNCHER) and I had to help them fight those off. At least I leveled up? *sigh* I also managed to switch on the lights in the Castle, though I don't know how to bring someone there so they can help gather food for the radio man stationed there. Meh. As it stands, I'm trying to concentrate on one final mission before I go to Diamond City -- a kidnapping mission that, even if it isn't time-sensitive, feels like it should be. Met up with the panicked husband -- now I just have to go rescue the wife, bring her home, and then I am back on the road to plot.
I also watched two YouTube videos:
A) Jay from the Kubz Scouts playing some random games -- what LOOKED like a horror game, but which had a cute twist; an unfinished weird "hugging" game; aaaand Imagine Lifetimes! Of course, unlike Gray, he played it properly, so I got a good view of what the game is like when you're NOT messing around and killing yourself by studying drinking in college. :p Jay seemed to have a decent life! Though his reaction to the skull just suddenly appearing on the chair at the very end was very amusing. XD
B) The final set of Metro Exodus from Helloween4545! Which consisted in part of a four-minute summary of a bunch of footage Helloween recorded without realizing a recent Windows update had deselected all his sound stuff, and that he couldn't redo because the game has hard autosaves instead of letting you save where you want. Meeeh -- but it saved us from having to watch some parts with motion sickness flashing-lights and the like, so I won't complain too much. And we got to watch the rather touching ending where Artyom gets himself irradiated to within an inch of his life to get the medicine to save Anna, and his brothers-in-arms all give him a massive blood transfusion to save him. And hooray, Helloween managing to save/keep two out of the three companions who could leave/die at different points in the game got him the good ending where Artyom lives! :) He rated the final game a 6/10 -- it's a buggy mess, and he feels that the open world areas were a wrong direction, gameplay-wise, for this series, but he enjoyed the story and genuinely cared what happened to the characters. So that was good. Just gotta wrap up Dead Space 2's replay now. . .and then, we wait to end his official LPing on Bloodlines 2 next year. At least we'll always have his archived stream footage. . .
And I got up the next Scene From Secundus: An Unwelcome Reaction That Way, Nell's POV on the whole "telling Victor about his upcoming arranged marriage" bombshell. Carefully rewritten to match the previous week's story, of course. Rather like this one -- I think it shows off Nell's character very well. Social standing above all! Also she doesn't really care for her son as he is and it shows. Being disowned was probably the best thing to ever happen to this Victor. . .
Anyway! I'm still getting my VictorLuvsAlice queue sorted, and the stuff in my inbox, so I'll be off now. Less-busy day tomorrow, what with it being football Sunday -- hopefully it'll be a good game! Night all!
