Maple Festival

The 2nd and 3rd weekends in March are always Maple Weekend around here, so to celebrate we went to our local maple farm, the same one we went to last year. 

It was a beautiful, crisp, snowy spring day. Below is the sugar house where they boil the sap. The dark smoke is the wood they burn for the fire and the white "smoke" is steam from the sap (but they were actually boiling water this day since it was too cold for the sap to run).

Logan was as snug as a bug in a rug all cuddled up with Mom. I don't think many people realized that I had him inside my coat, it was pretty funny. One woman said "you are about to pop out of your coat! Oh wait, there's a baby in there!"

This was the farms 50th year in operation. This was Father who built the farm from the ground up. They literally do everything here from collecting the sap, boiling it and even bottling it right there. That is what he was doing. They also make maple candies, maple sugar and maple cream. All YUMMY!

We got to ride a hayride back and forth from the sugar shack. I can't remember what she was pouting about in this picture.

There was an animal area where the kids could pet bunnies, goats, chickens and a pig.

There was also PONY RIDES!!

Somebody get this girl a horse!

Cowboy K had a good time too.

Do you know what happens if you stare longingly into the cotton candy machine?

You get free samples!!

(And maple cotton candy is the BEST!!)

The kids even got a ride from a Newfoundland! How cool is that?!?

Matt and I think that this might be the next dog that we get (if we can convince ourselves to buy a dog from a breeder), his name would be Chewbacca.