Maple Candy!! (Day 9) 9/17/09

I woke up this mornin'..... and took a jog....

*durr durr, dirr dirr, durr durr, dirr dirr*
But the emergency turnoff key kept falling off of me....

*durr durr, dirr dirr, durr durr, dirr dirr*

So now I've got the Treadmill bah-luuuues...

*durr dirr dirr darr darr durr durr:*

And they ain't gonna go away....

*durr durr dirr dirr doodaadaa doodadaa*

Thank you, thank you.

So that pretty much sums up my early morning routine. I ate breakfast and worked on blog settings, and finally at 9:30 Greta roused from the dead to eat hers. We then packed up to leave St. Johnsbury Vermont and stopped on our way out at the Maple Grove Farms factory.

The tour there started out with a ~10 minute video about making syrup and the history of Maple Grove Farms (which started out as a simple maple candy factory in the 1800s, and has expanded into syrup and salad dressings.) The tour guide then took us through the factory line, which essentially is a bottling and candy-forming facility. On the way down between facilities, we walked down a staircase which had a low ceiling with a stuffed duck overhead. Get it? Hahaha!!

Dad bought a syrup grade-sampler (from light colored fancy grade to almost opaque Grade B) and we left for Maine. We crossed through New Hampshire and into a roadside construction zone where they were blasting out rock, and then into Maine.

In Maine, we made it to Acadia National park, and set up shop in a campsite just outside of the boundary. I am now writing this blog on the amazinglyWiFi that the park has. I could hardly believe it, but it's true.

We're going to spend 3 nights (including tonight) in Acadia, and then we will begin heading southward towards Boston. If you're following us on the map, we're at point I:

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