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Day 72


Today we visited Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock. The farm offers walks through the Maple trees as well as a tour of their cheese and syrup production line. Ethan slept through the entire educational aspect, and woke up as we entered the gift shop at the end! Jorja listened attentively to the cheese talk - wondering why they would choose to dip cheese in candle wax! We sampled a few flavours and the Sage infused Cheddar was a firm favourite.

She especially enjoyed it when P-J read the little fact-boards plastered all around the venue about maple syrup production. 


Learning about the 6-Step cheese production process


Fun with Dad

Farm Facts

Ever wondered why Maple Syrup is so expensive?
40 Gallons of maple tree sap (the blue barrel) will boil down into only 1 gallon of syrup to sell (bottle on top)!

Quick Geography lesson

Greeting the animals on the way out
 We left the farm and head for Lake Pinneo to prepare our picnic dinner and enjoy a swim...

Chef getting to work on the braai a-la-Tokai Forest mode

Jorja jumped right in!

Ethan doing some beach-aerobics...

...before just laying down in the sand
 Eventually, he was taking a run up and diving into the sandy shore towards his sister and we all enjoyed a splash about until dinner time. At 8pm, we packed up and head home after a wonderful day out.


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