Maple Momments

Okay, so last Saturday Tony and I left for the wild blue yonder of the Montsberg Maple Syrup Festival. For all of you unfamiliar with Ontario and its maple monopoly (well, besides Quebec!) Every year around springtime, we Ontarians leave the comfort of our warm homes to trek into the bush and participate in one of the greatest wonders of the world....THE MAKING OF MAPLE SYRUP!
As with tradition, one must dress very warmly and layer up. Not so much for the cold, as much as for the extra space to fill one's belly with pancakes, dripping with the liquid gold!

Here we can see Tony effortlessly ordering up the infamous LUMBERJACK PLATTER. I think my exact words here were, "Oh my WORD!!!"

Just in case anyone was wondering, the LUMBERJACK is for those with larger appetites, (Tony) and includes 8 gigantic pancakes and 8 sausages! Good Lord! Unfortunately, I seem to be missing the next picture of us opening our pants!

There was also a cool assortment of big horses! We took a wagon ride at the end of the day in order to see how the early settlers harvested the maple sap. I felt like a sap snapping so many photos!

Here's an interesting Ontario fact: it takes 40 litres of maple sap to get 1 litre of maple syrup. Hmmmm! If you look closely here, you can see T-bone and the horse having a "special momment." No nibbling!

It was a fun, cold day... I think we both came home guilty of having sampled one too many maple sugar candies (thought of ya T!) Let's hear it for the Lumberjack Zimms!!