Extreme team building from suburban office cubicle dwellers ... not

My company supposedly doesn't have a lot of spending money these days. We're a big fish, but the market downturns have left us hurting quite a bit. So, we have gotten used to tight budgets, no travelling, no perks, etc. The usual belt-tightening, right?

Well, this colleague from out of town tells me that while she's here their team actually got funding to do some team building exercises. (You know, the kind of activity that's supposed to get everyone in the team gelling and talking together?) So what better way than to do that with a ... corn maze?!

Firstly, where'd we get the budget? Secondly, where the heck are there any corn fields around here?

If you're familiar with San Francisco Bay Area geography, you know that we have very very few fields now because most everything is taken up by houses, Walmart, and office buildings. Well, it turns out that we really do have a corn maze around here. In Fremont. *gasp*


Yes, so my colleague (who happens to come from Boxborough, MA, where there's a maze 2 miles from her house) is coming all the way out here to go to another maize maze of genetically altered corn in a fake cornfield...