Saturday we went to a "Sugar on Snow" event at Palmer's Sugarhouse in Shelburne. In the fall, Vermont has apples, apple cider, apple pie, and apple donuts. In the spring (if you can call these frigid temps and wind chills "spring"), you will find maple syrup everywhere you turn. Maple syrup, maple donuts, maple candies, maple cream, and even maple hot dogs. So we went to a local Sugarhouse to check it out. And we tried something we'd never had, sugar on snow. It's basically shaved ice topped with warm maple syrup, so it gets really deliciously gooey. And they serve it with a plain donut and a pickle. Yes, a pickle. I refused to eat the pickle with it (not because I don't like pickles, but why ruin the syrup?!), but Chris said it went surprisingly well together. Maybe next time.
I've also been trying to form a twins group, so we met up at the sugarhouse with two other families with twins! They were both boy-girl twins, one set was almost 2 years, and the other 3 1/2. It was great to get together with them and I hope we can keep it up and grow the group. We saw twins everywhere in Boston, but not so much up here. Someday I'll get a picture up on the blog of a whole bunch of twins and really freak everyone out.
The sugarhouse also had a little barn with goats and a one legged chicken. If it weren't so cold out, we'd have hung out longer, especially on the swing set. (And taken more pictures.) Again, maybe next time!
The "sugarhouse":
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