The weather was really nice this Sunday, so we all headed out to a local park where they do maple sugaring and syrup making for educational purposes. Lauren was jumping for joy at the opportunity, because this is something they did in pioneer times, and it is talked about quite a bit in the earlier Laura Ingalls Books.
Once we wandered to the Sugarbush area, we had to stop and learn how syrup was boiled, and when and how the sap was determined to be syrup. The people showing us the process were very knowledgeable and the girls enjoyed listening them. The girls enjoyed the lessons, and then were eager to tromp through the little wooded area to see a tree be tapped.
Lauren was utterly fascinated and glued to every word the lady was saying, even answering questions. When it came time to hang the bucket, the docent let Lauren hang the bucket herself. Lauren was honored.
I managed to get a few videos of the sap dripping out of the tree into the metal buckets. It was interesting. This is the bucket Lauren hung, so it was pretty empty and the sap "pinged" into the bucket.
This video is of a bucket that was hung earlier in the day. This bucket was fairly full and it was almost melodic the way the sap dripped into the bucket and created a song.
Annika quickly tired of all the sappy activities, and she wandered off to create a fairy house in the woods. She had fun finding treasures in the woods.
We really liked the heart shaped stump.
Later, the girls enjoyed exploring the woods and playing among all the fallen trees and logs. It was a nice afternoon walking in the woods, playing around like a kid again. I wish my kids had this type of area in their back yard, like I did as a child. Many happy memories were made just tromping and pretending in our woods growing up.
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