276/365 A fall day

What a BUSY day! We spent the morning at a corn maze. Being a Miami girl - this was a first for me. I'd seen such things on TV, but never seen one in real life. But there are a few nearby, so we decided to head over and check it out.

Let me just say - if you have never done this, you must give it a try! It was so much fun! Hot and sweaty, but very fun! We went to Long and Scott's Farm in Zellwood - I highly recommend them.

http://www.longandscottfarms.com/maze_adventures.html

Here mom and I are waiting for our video to show us how to not get lost.

Yes, those are 3D glasses. They had a whole puzzle element to go along with the maze.

The entrance to the maze area

Mom and I walked through the tunnel.

Matt went down the 60 foot slide. Yes, seriously.

Then went got a glimpse of the maze itself.

Look at that poster. The top is the big maze, 6 or 7 acres. Takes more than an hour to get through - and that is for the people who work there and know which way to go.

The bottom right corner is the kiddie maze - only one way in and out and it goes in a wheel pattern. They said it would only take 15 minutes - so Mom and I decided that was the one for us.

Entrance to the kiddie maze

Matt went into the big maze!

Here are pictures from the tower bridge in the kiddie maze over looking both mazes.

View from inside the maze

You can see that even in the kiddie maze - the corn is up over our heads!

When we finished (30 plus minutes later) we headed over the shaded farmers market to wait for Matt.

Mom

Me

When we finished that adventure, we headed over the the Winter Garden Musical Festival. It's a huge street festival going on for three blocks in downtown Winter Garden. We caught a preview of Plaid Forever and discovered our friend David Foust was playing with them!

After enjoying the music, we wandered around and explored the displays.

We found a vendor selling nothing but Dad shirts! For those of you who don't know what a Dad shirt is - think loud, bright, obnoxious and Hawaiian style. My dad loves them and can be found haunting Goodwill for shirts that others have deemed unwearable.

Matt's reaction

Mom realizing that she will be going home with new Dad shirts

After leaving the festival, we explored a little. We saw this guy on the way

We also explored a small cemetery. It's in Oakland, Florida and you get to it by taking a sharp turn off the road nearly down hill. No roads, no parking lot - not even a dirt road. But some of the graves are very new.

I discovered the children's section - heart breaking.

275/365 TGIF!

It's finally Friday! My camera is home and I'm so happy. I have enjoyed using the back up point and shoot - but it's good to have my baby home.

These were done with the point and shoot

And these are with the SLR

Also, you can see my parents are in town! They've come to visit for the weekend and we're going to check out a local corn maze and a music festival (very different places!).

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An afternoon at the Lower School.

Most days begin with General the dog greeting me and then teaching his stuffed dog a lesson.

As soon as homework is done, we head outside to enjoy the afternoon.

Rinse and repeat. The best part about it is each day the kids are ready for more! Every day is new to them and they bring that joy with them.

273/365 September 2009

Another month done!

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I was fortunate enough today to do a photoshoot for school - but even more fortunate to power my friend's camera. Mine is still out of commission and this shoot required an SLR. So I shot with her Nikon and her telephoto lens and can I just say - LOVE!

Look at the depth of field on this!

I also had my photography club out there shooting with me. They captured different angles and I'm so proud of them. Here are shots of them shooting:

I can only show off a few photos from the day - but I love these.

My after care kids