We had a very fun busy day on Saturday. We were at Main Street Baptist Church bright and early for Elle's Awana Boat race. She had worked hard on her little wooden boat, and was all set for the races!! Can you pick out Elle's personally designed boat? The 10 gallon hat "cow girl" boat is Elle's pride and joy!
All the boats lined up pre-race.
Singing their cubbies song for everyone.
Excitedly waiting for her name to be called for her race.
Here she goes! She chose the blue water for her first race.
franticly blowing on her sail to make her boat go.
Almost to the end!
A very proud 5 year old with her medal and certificate!
With all her fellow Cubbies for the group picture.
Sharing her cake with Elin...or her icing mostly!!
We went home for a quick lunch, pulled on our rubber boots, and for some, splash pants, then headed to the sugar woods!! Our church plans an outing to the sugar woods every year, and this year our group of faithfuls was especially small, but it was a big- on- fun time!! Here is Emmy loving her Maple candy!
Elle and Adrianna checking out the maple sugar maple leaves..Yum!
The Sugar camp we love going to is a completely off the grid maple syrup production. Every year we go down the looong set of stairs..84 in total( we do a count every year, up and down just to make sure!!), to see the water wheel at work and the sap coming in out of the trees.
Here is the water wheel busily churning away
And the sap filling up the huge vats.
Checking out the water wheel
The sap filling up the milk jug, and emptying . The girls loved this as they would hear the pressure build up and the hiss as it released then the huge whoosh as the sap rushed out.
This is their new and improved equipment that they added this year. They tap over 15,000 trees, and burn 100 cord of wood in the few weeks of the sap running. Crazy!!
Elin getting her maple candy!
The huge boiler
Eva a little worn out from the big walk in and all the stairs!! She also had a meet and greet with the mud a few times!
Just relaxing with Daddy.
Now these 2 were full of it!
Adrianna's family and another couple (Sandra's parents) from our church went with us. The girls all love Dale (Sandra's dad) and he was tossing snow at them the whole way back. They were all busily running from snow spot to snow spot , gathering snow to throw at him.
Dale and the girls found an old fashioned sap bucket and sampled the pure sap..The owners have been so busy with the syrup making they haven't even been collecting the sap from the demo buckets they have around, so they are overflowing and dripping on the ground. Well the girls think we should bring straws with us next year!!
They loved it!
Even Eva got off her perch to get a taste.
Elin had a cushy ride for the afternoon, she was so quiet and content she hardly even moved the whole trip.
One last picture of the revellers! Em is concealing a snowball behind her back. They had so much fun!
love it!!! Way to go Elle~~~~~..
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