Maple Syrup Festival
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Managed to grab a tix to Elmira to celebrate "Maple Syrup Festival". Have been wanting to buy lotsa maple-related products and try a pure maple syrup. Yeap, finally had the chance. Thanks to Saranya! Woke up at 6:30am in the mornin on 1st Apr, to catch the 'school bus' from campus to Elmira. Started off with the long queue for pancakes. Had 2 large-sized pancake with maple syrup which i thought was too sweet.
The weather lately is indeed unpredictable. It's super windy that day and i was underdressed. My jacket looks warm but in fact, the material used for the sleeves actually makes the hands cooler. What kind of design?!
then we went to this crowded lined up with different kinds of stalls (something like 'pasar malam' in Singapore). Check out the interesting food they are selling --> maple syrup directly from sap, jumbo sausage, apple dip, apple dumpling (which looks like mashed potatoe), all kinds of maple products (ranging from syrup to popcorn and to burger), Gigantic turkey drumstick, maple taffy and assorted lollipops.
We are really so cold that we decided to join the sugarbush tour, in order to get some warmth on the bus. It brings us to where the sap are collected. We sat on a truck with hay-seats that bring us deeper into the 'forest'. First thing that catch our attention is the way they are making popcorns that are for sale. Is that the traditional way to do it? P1080561.MOV
It's so cheap and yummy. 
We didn't give up any opportunity to warm our hands.
back to the stalls to get maple syrup only to realize tt i dun have enough cash. arghh, only manage to buy 1 pathetic bottle. What a waste! Better not let me know that it's more expensive elsewhere. Apparently the pancakes have digested and we are in search for food agn. The funny thing is ... we have craving for cup noodle. 2 other reasons are: we seriously need to warm our hands and we didnt bring enough $. So Joo and i spent the last 45mins before the meeting time at a convenient store to enjoy our cup noodle.
Went back to sch and stayed in JOO's warm and cosy room for an afternoon nap of almost 5hours.
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