Amazing Apples

I've always thought that fall was on one of my favorite parts of the year.  Everything about it makes me happy, besides the cold rain and the long hours of school that is.  I hate the days that start out perfectly fine and then all of a sudden, small drops of cold moisture start dropping from the sky.  It ruins everything.  My pants get soaked, my hair starts curling in the most awful ways, and it gets significantly colder, especially when I don't have a jacket.  But, things like apple picking and trying to tackle a huge 3 acre maze outweigh all the bad stuff.  

This weekend, I managed to tackle both of the aforementioned.  I went apple picking with my friends at this place called Indian Ladder Farms in Altamont, NY.  It is this really cute place with homemade donuts, a petting zoo, and of course, yummy apples.  I managed to come home with a whole bag of them, not to mention the free ones I ate along the way.

Today, I got to tackle the Amazing Maize Maze in Ballston Spa.  I have to be honest when I say it was a lot harder than I initially thought it would be.  I had this weird desire to get lost in it.  That is, until I actually went inside.  A crazy network of intergalactic spaces turns followed, with paths that led to nowhere except where we started, dead ends, and people who were just as confused as we were.  It was insane.  We eventually managed to tackle it however in just 45 minutes.  I was pretty proud, even though I didn't do much to help, besides hold the flag.  

I really think everyone should try one of those mazes at least once in their lifetime.  It's an adventure you really don't want to miss.