Today's eclipse

Today was the big eclipse.  I'll be honest, I'm not remotely a science person so I hadn't really given it one bit of thought until about two weeks ago.  By then, there was no finding any glasses or anything to make it safe.  I was thrilled to hear that the entire middle school was going to get to participate, because Thomas was definitely the one that cared the most.  I'm a little disappointed that he had football after school today (indoors) and I'll be at band by the time he gets home.  I can't wait to hear what he thought about it.  The high school also had some available and Catherine took advantage.  We were not in totality, but were at 89-90%...pretty darn good!  I was able to see the crescent shapes by looking through my colander.  It got darker than normal, but both Catherine and I agreed it wasn't as dark as we had expected.  It was more eerie than anything else.  I'm just grateful the clouds stayed away so we could experience what we could experience!