A maze at Lookout Farm in Natick, MA.
Don't go apple picking here. First of all, it's super expensive. You have to pay for admission and a bag to hold your apples, or pears, or whatever you want to pick, which is fine, but at this place it's like $17, which is not fine. Then you have to get on this little choo-choo train that takes you out to specific cordoned-off aisles of fruit trees. You have to walk down these designated picking aisles for about 3 minutes before you can even find any apples. If you're not back at the train on time, you're stuck there until the next one comes, because they've strategically stranded you within this evil grid of fenced-in paths.
Also, these paths are covered with lattice, and the lattice is covered with grapes, but for some reason you're not allowed to eat them, even though they're hanging down just above your head, cruel, taunting you, looking delicious. Eat them anyway.
I ended up giving this farm $30 and three hours of my life for five stupid apples and a lifetime of heartbreak. Go to a smaller, less fascist orchard, where you can at least walk around at your leisure.
The good news is they have this maze, and also I took this photo from atop a giant mountain of hay bales, which was great for playing American Gladiators on.
2 comments:
I second that heartbreak.
But if you can't get enough of such things as...
* Sanitized nature
* Rabid killer petting zoo goats
* The emotional rollercoaster that is spotting a pumpkin tree, believing that it exists, and then learning that it's just mini-pumpkins shabbily attached to a tree
and...
* An orchard that gives organic food a bad name
...then Lookout Farms is for you!
Oh yeah! I forgot about the goats!
Some dumb kids left the gate to the goat pen open and the goats got out and tore down every Purell dispenser they could find. They were like "you'll get our goat germs and LIKE IT!"
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