Maine Maple Sunday

It is hard to believe that it has been a year since Maine Maple Sunday 2008...time seems to be flying by us! Fast forward to 2009 and once again, we 3 Smiley's ventured out on the 4th Sunday of March to join the masses at the annual opening of the sugar houses around Maine. Additionally, we dragged Mike, Dana, and Caroline along too; after all, they heard us raving about warm maple syrup poured over ice cream for the past year. This year we drove about an hour west to Poland, Maine where we visited Harvest Hill Farms. Fortunately but unfortunately, the day started out chilly but sunny however as we arrived at the farm the temperature began to drop and by the time we left, the snow was falling at a quick pace. While at the farm we had a chance to stop by and visit/pet the horses and then we ventured down to the sugar house for a lunch of pancakes, bacon, AND maple syrup (of course!). After the pancakes Mike and Mike treated themselves to ice cream topped with maple syrup. With the temperature at about 35 degrees, us girls passed on the ice cream. We would have loved to spend a longer day on the farm but with the cold temps and the snow it was just not going to happen. We sure will miss this day next year!

Eating Pancakes under the tent (wind was gusting!)

Swapping girls

On the hayride back to our car...we did not feel like trudging through mud in the snow