Good lord, it’s almost Halloween!
OK, no, not really. But it is the day of the first press release from Portland’s Pumpkin Patch, home of the five-acre MAiZE. Yes, spelled like that. It’s a little silly, but the actual maze is nothing of the sort. At least if you go during the last three weekends in October, when it’s haunted. Some friends and I headed out to the maze a couple of years ago and found ourselves giggling hysterically for a good couple of hours while covered in mud (flip-flops are a no-no; I wound up barefoot, my feet getting an accidental mud bath). We got lost, we chatted up monsters, we got the crap scared out of us a couple of times, and we accidentally almost got a monster in trouble (we thought he had a flask). Remember, kids, the maze is as interactive as you make it. Engage the monsters in conversation! Especially the lonely ones near the end. They just aren’t appreciated enough.
Oh, yeah: There’s also a 30-foot hay pyramid. What?
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