How else does one celebrate here? By going to one of the many sugar houses, of course!
A pamphlet comes out with all of the festivities around the area, so we narrowed it down to who had the more interesting activities, including food, tours, animals, games...and of course location was slightly important, too, since we didn't want to drive 2 hours to be in one location for 20 minutes...
And in the end, we chose:
And now, for our fun in the form of pictures!
The morning started off with Cary and I seeing 3 deer on the way to church. One was even prancing until he saw us watching him!
This is an example of what a lot of our trees look like right now:
Scenic lookout on the way to the maple location
When we arrived, we parked a ways down and walked to the place. Only about a 10 minute walk, but when we got there, there were tons of people to see!
We chose this location because they had ice cream with maple drizzled on top, maple whoopie pies, and animals to see. We also thought they had hamburgers and hot dogs, but when we got there, realized this wasn't the case. Just 3 lines to tour the sugar house where the syrup is made (all of the pictures didn't show much, just big metal containers), a line to sell their maple items, and a third line to go into the barn.
They had a guessing game to see if you could guess the total weight of all of the pigs...
Brylee liked to look at them, but couldn't give us a serious estimate
And they also had a contest to see who could name this calf. All Brylee could say was 'moo', and I bet that was already entered...
When we left (about 30 minutes later), we were hungry, and found a little video store that also had ice cream and made some meals. I had a delicious, simple grilled cheese sandwich, and Cary had a BLT.
All in all, it was a good time, but perhaps next year we'll find a smaller place that doesn't have as many lines to stand in...
Happy Maple Days!
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