Friday night, we went to the Seneca vs. West-Oak football game with the band, and liked to have freezed our tails off!! Unfortunately West-Oak didn't win, but we still had fun!
Saturday was an awesome day! I've always loved corn mazes, and Colt and I kept passing this really big one at an old farm called "Denver Downs". It seemed like a pretty cool one, plus they had a petting zoo, pumpkin patch, hay rides, etc. As it turned out, Saturday morning we were looking online for some things to do in the area, and ran across an advertisement for a civil war reenactment (something I've always wanted to attend!) at Denver Downs! So we ate a quick lunch and headed over, and boy did we have a blast!
*WARNING: Picture overload ahead.
We didn't get to leave this section for a little while...someone had to get just the right shot... ;)
I'm still not sure how this thing works...is the other half of it buried in the sand or something???
This was an awesome way to do duck races!
:)
Petting zoo...check :)
These piglets were soooo cute!!
One more because I just couldn't help myself :)
This hay barn was so much fun! Once you climb up the hay to get in, you get to pull a "Tarzan" move and swing across!
Lovely.
Cue "Tarzan cry"...
There were hay rides available to take you to the pumpkin patch to pick out your own pumpkin, or take you to the civil war reenactment.
Pumpkin patch.
Soldiers going off to battle.
These ladies claimed they were field nurses, but I didn't see them do anything but sit...
The cannons were seriously loud, but every once in a while they produced awesome smoke rings!
Camp.
Concession stand.
Cool period items for sale, I really liked these lanterns.
Colt, "That looks like fun!"
Yup :)
We had a fun time in the maze, but unfortunately some people decided they would cheat, so when we got in there corn walls were knocked down and checkpoints had been moved around :( I think next year we'll go the weekend that it opens, so we can experience the maze before it gets ruined.
Clearly some people don't read the rules/don't care because it was evident that every one of those rules was broken...we may or may not have seen empty beer cans.
Colt proved to be quite the excellent guide, I have to admit I was impressed.
He had to figure out how everything worked. Thank goodness there were blocks around the wheels or he might have just rolled away!
After a fun day, we went to an amazing local barbecue place called, "The Smokin' Pig". This place is only open Thursday-Saturday, and always has long lines out the door. Every time we would drive past it we would say we've got to go there, so we finally did! AMAZING. So good. You can believe the hype on this place! Then we finished Saturday night off with an incredible Gamecock victory. What a game!!
Sunday we went to Church and had a grand time, then headed on over to have dinner with some great friends/family (they might not be blood related, but they still count!).
All in all, it was a wonderful weekend and we're so glad that Mom could come visit!!
