Tuesday, August 22, 2017

ECLIPSE DAY 2017

Everyone's talking about it, so I'm sure some people are already over it, buuuuuut it was incredibly cool and a once-in-a-lifetime experience....so I am doing a full recap of our Eclipse Day! 

We both decided to work from home since there were about 1.5 MILLION extra people making their way to Nashville for the day. Fighting all that traffic just didn't sound too appealing.

I woke up and cooked some omelets for breakfast and then we both got to work. My office is upstairs in our home and Matthew's office is downstairs, and Reagan could not decide who she wanted to hangout with so she hung out on the stairway between the two of us lol.

I wrapped up a conference call and ran outside with Matthew to view the initial contact. We downloaded a pretty cool app that had a timer on it and told us when everything was happening. Best $2 we've ever spent on an app!
After we saw the first initial contact happen we came back in and worked a little and would go back out and check every little bit until it was close to totality time. 

After hearing a ton of horror stories online, I was pretty skeptical about the whole thing. I have awful vision already so I didn't want to ruin it anymore, but I did read that if you take a break from looking at it (with your glasses on, obviously) every few seconds then you would be okay. Fingers crossed that's true, ha!






Loved all of the filters for Eclipse Day!

And then it started getting darker!! We could hear the birds starting to chirp, crickets, our neighbors, and the timer counting down. When we hit full totality we heard a ton of people in our neighborhood cheering. It was one of the coolest experiences we have ever experienced.




So incredibly cool, literally, the temperature dropped and we stopped sweating for a full two minutes. Pure beauty right there.

The coolest day with the coolest (& cutest) guy, ever!

3 comments:

  1. Such a neat experience!!! I was amazed by it here, too! We were definitely lucky to be in the path of totality!

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  2. That is the coolest thing ever!!! So awesome y'all got to work from home to see it! Now we're excited for the one in 2048 lol

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  3. It's so cool that it got dark!

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