There are lots of reasons we love Michigan, but one of them is that the world is so alive out here. In fact, even our trees perform out here. Michigan is one of the few places where you can extract the sap from Maple trees to produce maple syrup. They demonstrate this at a great park not too far from our house where they still do it the old fashioned way and you even get to sample the maple syrup and watch them make maple cream and maple sugar. Of course we bought some of the fresh stuff to enjoy at home.
They present everything in a really rich, interesting way that even the kids enjoy (okay, Jace was bored after only a few minutes, but that is pretty typical...Parker and James were totally interested and Parker didn't want to leave). We had an unusually warm March so we felt very lucky to still be able to see them get a good tap at the end of the month! I think we'll make this a tradition (although the breakfast was pretty lame, so I think we'll skip that and eat our own pancakes).
6 comments:
What a fun thing to do & learn about. I love that y'all go experience so many things of the culture around you.
I like the Indian! He's hot! :) Looks like my kind of sweet fun!
The syrup being sweet fun, not the Indian. :)
So fun! What a great thing to do! I can't get over the pictures there of pierce. Seriously, he is the cutest baby EVER!!!!
I love that you're making this a new family tradition. I don't think I can ever go back to that cheap table syrup from the grocery stores.
that was one of my favorite parts of living in vermont! real maple syrup has no competitors. do they do maple sugar on snow there? that's my absolute favorite!
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