Maple Sunday Road Trip

 Every year in Maine, on the 4th Sunday of March, All the Maple Sugar Houses open up to the public. It is a great way to see different techniques, methods, and sizes of sugar houses. This year we invited our Sunday School class to join the road trip. 2 families took us up on the offer and it was so much fun! We packed lunches and headed out after church. We all went to 3 Sugar houses and then our family went to one more that was a bit farther away.  It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and warmer then recent days.  The stops we took had so many samples of Maple products to try. Maple ice cream, maple cotton candy, maple bars, cookies, coffee, maple baked beans, maple cream on crackers, maple muffins, so much more. We had so much fun and learned a lot to add to our Maple making. We had so much fun we missed some pictures at Maxwell's. I love exploring around us and love taking friends with us! I must confess, i did have a bit of envy on many of these cool machines! Keith and I were told many times "Yep we just started with 10 taps and worked our way up" 10 taps one year over a turkey fryer, 20 the next over a homemade evaporator, 500 the next..... I see where this is going.... Not sure I'm up for 500 taps but I sure do enjoy having an abundance supply of syrup!

 Here is the group on our last stop Maine-Lee

 Chandlers is the biggest producer that we went to, and I mean it as huge.

 So shiny and sweet in their building

 Maine-Lee

 Samples

 Jeremy photo bombed me