Today we did something we’d been planning to check out since the beginning of March, we went on a sugarbush tour. I guess it’s a really common thing to do around here, at least for people with kids. There are probably half a dozen different places to go within two hours of our house. We went to this one.

It was moderately interesting for me since I have never been to anything like this. But the informative parts of the tour added up to about 30 seconds. The rest was all mud and baby animals and maple sugar-based products. We consumed syrup and petted the animals and that was pretty much that.

Bet you can’t guess what was the kids favorite part?

A scenic ride with horses through the Sugar Maples? Nope.

Sitting on the tractor? Nuh-uh.

Petting the animals? No.

Adorable widdow baby animals??? Nah, cheap thrills.

Must be the wagon ride! Uh….wrong again.

Did you guess the candy? Because that would seem like a really logical guess, wouldn’t it? But you would be dead wrong, once again. Because for my kids, and many others on the tour, the highlight of the entire $6.00 tour was this…

Yes. The horse poop. What captivated the minds of all the children on our particular wagon was simple excrement. In the picture on the right you can see my daughter (left) along with two other girls peering over the side of the wagon. Not to look at the sap buckets on the trees where the parents were trying to direct their attention. Rather, they are relishing the fresh load of crap the horses dropped as we were traveling and shouting “LOOK! POOP! MOMMY! THE HORSES POOOOOOOPED!!!! THERE’S SOME MORE!!!”

There you have it, folks. The cost of a day at the Sugarbush? Six dollars. The delight of children? Horseshit Priceless!