Elmira Maple Syrup festival 27.3.2010

"As winter slips away into springtime and the daytime temperature begins to rise above freezing, many families in Ontario return to their sugar bush to make maple syrup. The boiling of sap to make maple syrup and maple sugar is one of the oldest traditions in North America and is part of Canada’s heritage. Canada is famous around the world for its pure Maple Syrup."
(http://www.elmiramaplesyrup.com)

Tell me, could I have missed it? :) Of course not! The biggest maple syrup festival in the world just round the corner - in Elmira! It was an amazing experience. There was many kinds local farmers products, mainly food and crafts. Remarkable was Big Ass Garlic, pieorgy, and of course pancakes! Also we saw how maple sap is gained from trees and how maple syrup is extracted of it.
Important part of the festival was waiting in a queue: for tickets to buy pancakes, for pancakes, for a bus to go to the forest, ... simply for anything. Queueing is a part of daily life in Canada :)

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CA04 Elmira Maple Syrup Festival 27.3.2010