Good Friday - Sugar Moon

We got up and had a simple breakfast as the hotel.  It wasn't exactly snazzy, but it did us a treat.  There was (as there always is) a Tim Hortons close by so we had a cuppa to wake up first thing as John popped out to get us one, bless him.  We headed over to Steve and Holly's and once everyone was ready we headed over to a maple syrup farm called Sugar Moon.  We have been there before but that was in the autumn time.  This time of year is the season for making syrup as the sap is running and it was going pretty well today!  It was packed with people as lots of things are closed on Good Friday here (unlike at home - good for them I say) so we braved the queue and had a brief tour of the sugar shack where the sap is boiled down to make the maple syrup.  The pancake house and restaurant was jammed to the rafters though and there was a two and a half hour wait for that so we didn't bother.  The tour was really interesting though and I think that if there's a heaven, it would smell like the smell coming out of the evaporator in the sugar shack.  It was gorgeous!

After we left Sugar Moon we headed out onto the high way and stopped for something to eat at Saltscapes which was nice.  Steve, Holly and the Kids headed back home to get ready to follow us later to Kentville for all the Easter fun and games at John's parent's house.  John and I had a really nice drive back to Kentville cross country and it was very pleasant indeed.  The sun was out but it was still cold and in some places there was still plenty of snow on the ground still.

When we arrived back Shelley and Nathan had arrived with baby Morgan who is absolutely beautiful.  Later Steve, Holly and the kids arrived and the house was bursting at the seams!