Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Some firsts for Melissa

This past weekend Melissa and I traveled to my homeland (Blackford County Indiana) for my home church's Fall Festival. The festival is a fundraiser for the expansion of their worship facilities. This was Melissa's first auction that she has ever attended. I made her do the bidding which was interesting considering the fact that she raised her own bid. No biggie though...it was for a good cause. As for Melissa's firsts...the auction was only one of many this weekend.

The first thing that we did over the weekend was a corn maze...a haunted corn maze. I have never laughed so hard. Unfortunatley, they did not allow cameras in the maze so I do not have pics of the actual event to share with you. Not even five minutes into the maze a man in black jumped out from the corn and scared the daylights out of my mother and Melissa. Mom ran from the man and in her terror fell to the ground. I thought nothing could top watching my mother roll on the ground in fear. However...only moments later the same man scared Melissa so much that she fell to the ground as well. She was so scared! It was so funny! When she got up she just buried her face in my chest...nearing tears. It was quite amusing.





























The fear left Melissa's eyes, as you can see, shortly after the haunted maze.

On Saturday, I went to the golf course while Melissa met my mom after work to head to Hobby Lobby to get decorations for Fall. This is the most impressive first for Melissa in her eyes. To meet my mom, she had to drive to town which consists of driving 7 miles through the country. Melissa, growing up in the overpopulated towns of Southern California, never had this opportunity and still does not understand how the road numbers work. But...she was successful in not getting lost. Good job Liss!

Melissa had yet another first this weekend...in this very field:

















Yes...Melissa rode in a combine! She was so excited to climb into such a large machine and be a part of the harvest. She even ate a soybean straight from the field...which had little flavor.