Saturday morning we woke up to a lovely view out of Christine and Barrett's front windows. We even saw a train and then all proceeded to say choo choo! However, not too much dawdling as it was Maple Festival this weekend in New York and we were ready to explore! First up, pancakes, bacon and of course, maple syrup. Yummy. The food was delicious and the restaurant was actually part of a three story house with all sorts of fun trinkets, candles, purses and other pretty randomness. This required much exploring and picture taking :)
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| tapping the maple tree |
Our next stop of the day was an actual Maple Farm. Here we tried a few samples (maple coated nuts, mmm) and explored the store for a bit before heading back to the tour. Apparently it had been too warm the night before to have real operations up and going, but they did show us the machinery and had a large tub of syrup boiling which smelled heavenly. It was interesting to hear how their processes differ from others, from the size of the hose going into the tree to the chemical processes they use or don't. We also got to hear about their many side endeavors like the maple cooking classes and eventual wheat mill. Random note, they even had gluten free and vegan pancake mixes in addition to their regular organic, Kosher mix.
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| view from the back of the hayride |
A hay ride finished up our time at the maple farm and though it took a while before we got going, the views were as amazing as they had promised. It was nice to sit back, take in the mild weather and enjoy old friends. Also nice to take goofy pictures with old friends :). The taking of pictures continued as we went on a brief tour of their town. While small, I loved the ambiance and enjoyed their stories. When we got back to their place Kat and I decided we should take some time to get a little bit of motion on our next few blogs. Christine was kind enough tonshare some maple, cream tea with us and after adding large amounts of maple syrup and milk it did taste like maple, cream :)
We passed a place earlier called the Dairy Diner which is actually a Thai restaurant. Upon finding that out, Kat was eager to try it out. Kind of a surprise, the food was actually really good. I'd recommend the Pad Thai, yumminess. Kat's Green Curry was delicious too, although quite spicy. As soon as dinner was done we hurried home to catch the sunset. Too bad there was a large hill (mountain?) in the way. A few pictures and it was time to break out the chocolate, peanut butter ice cream. We enjoyed this over a rather funny movie - Knight and Day - and with a fire burning in the fireplace. It was yummy and cozy and very hard to move when it was done. However, the tantalizing pull of the hot tub finally got us going. Apparently, the moon was as close to the earth as it's been in quite a while and was supposed to look huge. Not sure it was crazy big, but it was crazy beautiful (despite the fact that our camera doesn't always like the dark). Time in the tub passed very quickly and we were all soon tired again. Day 45 to an end.
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