South Texas Maize

Yesterday afternoon after some shopping we headed to Castroville to meet up with the Lilies. Their friends Denise and Josh were in town and we thought it would be fun to venture the South Texas Maize. We have heard about this attraction from many people in SA and were excited to get discounted tickets on Groupon. So everyone piled in the Russell car and we were on our way! If you get a chance, you should check out aerial view photos of the maize. It's George Strait's face!



I loved this sign...



All the kiddies enjoying the tractor ride.


Some pretty flowers by the entrance.


The Lilies with Denise and Josh...entering the first phase of the Maize.


Lilies and Russells!


Throughout both phases of the Maize we kind of switched off on who the leader was and here is our turn! Notice how dusty our shoes and jeans got. There were also lots of nats...we carefully calculated that we each inhaled about 3.5 million.


Josh P. trying to scare Denise.


This guy was in the viewing tower to make sure there was "no cussin', no smokin' and no kissin'" (our group broke 2 of the rules)



Pretty sunset from the observation stairs right before we finished phase 2. (Just in the nick of time since we didn't have flashlights)



"WE FINISHED" success pose...


AND finally we took Christmas card photos. (It was dark out and we didn't realize that the men were in the woman's cut out lol)






We had such a fun evening. A word to the wise: If you want some of their homemade kettle korn, make sure you order it before going through the maize. There was over an hour wait! Sad day. If you ever go, help a pregnant sister out and buy me some!

P.s. A blog post on Baby Russell is underway...I've had multiple requests!