Awww! We missed Maine Maple Sunday!!

We still had a good weekend, though. It was the perfect storm of holidays, really. Thursday was the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)'s birthday - a National holiday here.

Then Friday was the Middle East's Mother's Day - which was cool because my parents were visiting Dubai. Saturday was Nourouz - the Persian New Year. Sunday was the Christian / large bunny holiday of Easter.

But I totally forgot that Maine Maple Sunday is the fourth Sunday in March!

Maine is the second largest maple syrup producer in the US (after Vermont), so every year dozens of sugar houses around the state open their doors to the public for Maine Maple Sunday.

And what a process - did you know that it takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup?

It's a bummer we missed it, but next year we'll be home to have a pancake or two, and maybe even some maple cotton candy. Mmm!