I used to be form of excited to see the eclipse at present! I might been too scared to take a look at the one in 2017–the information made it sound like we might go blind immediately if we a lot as opened our eyes outdoors–so I selected to not. However then a number of folks had been speaking about how wonderful it was and I needed I might seen it. So, I made a decision I used to be for positive going to look at it at present. Particularly since we stay very near the totality path.
At round midnight final night time, it occurred to me that I by no means bought glasses in order that I might have a look at it! Jerry had taken at present off work (not for the eclipse, nevertheless it occurred to work out that method) so he went out this morning on a mission to get glasses. In every single place he went stated they bought out weeks in the past. He lastly discovered some at a 7-11 about 35 minutes away, and so they solely had a couple of pairs they put aside within the again.
I debated driving to Luna Pier (and even driving my bike), which is a small close by town–and the one place in Michigan that was within the totality path. Nonetheless, Noah came visiting and stated the visitors was INSANE all over the place. The road to get on the expressway was backed up for miles! So I figured I might be proud of the 99.98% totality and keep away from the visitors 😉
It was imagined to occur at about 3:12 pm, so we headed outdoors about 20 minutes beforehand. Jerry introduced out his welding helmet from work and that truly labored a lot better than the cardboard glasses. We handed it forwards and backwards, ready for one thing thrilling to occur, however I’ve to say, the eclipse was very underwhelming.
I discovered it extra attention-grabbing to simply go searching us as a result of the environment appeared actually eerie. It jogged my memory of the moments main as much as a tornado–where it appears such as you’re wanting via a filter or one thing. After which it was jarring that the temperature dropped a LOT and it bought tremendous darkish outdoors inside minutes. I hadn’t thought in regards to the temperature dropping like that, nevertheless it is sensible when the solar is hidden!
Whereas the entire thing did not precisely stay as much as the hype, we had a superb laugh–Jerry was attempting to get selfies of us however we could not see something with the helmet/glasses, so the images had been everywhere.
Eli’s baseball video games have began and he performs 38 video games(!) this season (two months). That could be a LOT of baseball. I’ve to get able to go to a sport proper now, however I have been engaged on some enjoyable tasks recently so I will put up photos of these tomorrow. (Maintain me to that!)
