The Crazy Corn Palace

The Corn Palace is…well, I am still trying to figure this one out myself. Pretty much it is a Palace made of corn, or someone went a little crazy with a Hot Glue Gun gluing corn cobs to the exterior of a building. I am still trying to figure out why it is not constantly surrounded by birds. Arriving after 4 hours of driving, 1 hour of time change and 1 hour of I am not sure where that hour actually went, the boys jump out of the car like little exploding dynamites. I tell them to go stand in front of the Palace so I can take a picture with my new wide angle lens. I cross the street, a one lane street which takes me all of 15 seconds to cross, I turn around and Beckett’s stroller is leaning all the way back on the ground (yes, he is in it), someone is opening the door to go in and someone else is in the street….seriously!!!?!?!?….I just want 1 Picture!!!

The Corn Cornceige (I made up that title) tells us to simply follow the yellow corn cobs on the ground like the yellow brick road and it will lead us on a self guided tour. So off my boys go like The Scarecrow, Lion and Tin Man.

I put my camera away and start to follow them, when I turn the corner they are not there, no one is there, so I continue forward until the prints lead you into the center of the building which is a basketball court temporarily turned into a gift shop, still no boys. I think great, how am I going to explain to Scott I lost 3 out of the 4 in a building made of corn?!?! I was going to keep following the corn prints hoping to stumble upon Oz, the great and powerful when I heard their not so quiet voices in the bleachers. Phew! I tell them “You need to calm down! We are here to look at corn!” -as soon as the words left my mouth I knew I sounded ridiculous and it was time to wrap things up.