Until I started looking for a sugar shack, I never realized how unique to our region of the world that this tradition is. Yet in 20+ years of living in Ottawa, I have never been to a sugar shack. Well in the vein of establishing new family traditions, we decided that a trip to the sugar shack for maple syrup season was a must. We headed out bright and early for a trip to Fulton Farm in Pakenham. Simon was a little under the weather and managed to sleep in the car even though he had just woken up for the day a 1/2 hour before. When we got there we immediately headed inside for breakfast - pancakes, sausages and of course, maple syrup! Normally this would be a dream breakfast for Simon but he was far too interested in looking around at everyone coming and going (apparently we're the only people in Ottawa that have never visited a maple syrup farm!). After breakfast we headed out to check out the other activities. It turns out this wasn't a great year to come since the weather wasn't warm enough to produce the syrup so we didn't get to see any of the production or actual sapping of the trees. We did however get to sample taffy on the snow and the yummiest cotton candy ever - I'm seriously debating going back just for this. We expect that Simon is going to love this yearly tradition judging by his appreciation of the snow taffy. After his initial taste, he quickly realized that he would need to bite down to get more of that yummy maple syrup flavour!
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