Samantha's first blog

Posted By pamelamyers on August 21, 2017

Today, something very, very cool happened. A solar eclipse, which went coast to coast for the first time since 1918, happened in the U.S.  The path went from Oregon to South Carolina, but unfortunately, we were not in the path of totality. We did get a 79.9% eclipse, which is still pretty cool.  I have to admit, I didn’t even have this on my radar. Mark did, of course, and he got us all psyched up for it. Thankfully, it was on a Monday so I had off. In the Philadelphia area, the partial eclipse started at 1:21 p.m., had the maximum coverage at 2:44 p.m. and ended at about 4:00 p.m.

We decided to make a party of sorts, and invited my mom, Mark’s dad, and Sam’s friend, Julia and her mom over to watch. Early in the day, we watched live TV coverage of the parts of the U.S. getting a total eclipse. I managed to get a good shot from the TV. We didn’t get to see that in person, but look how great it is! If you look at the small screen at the bottom, you can see how it turned to night when the full eclipse was happening.

We were fully prepared with special eclipse viewing glasses and special eclipse day t-shirts, purchased especially for the occasion. 🙂

You may notice the change in attire…Sam and Julia are nuts. They wanted to be twins. 🙂

It was a pretty amazing event. Maybe not a once in a lifetime, as many were calling it on TV, but it’s not like it happens every day. It’s one of those things that you need to share. I hope Sam looks back and remembers that crazy day when she was little when the moon just about covered up the sun. And how she shared it with the people that she loves. We certainly wanted to share it with the person we love more than anything else. As Julia’s mom said about the girls, more beautiful than any sun. I know to us, she shines brighter. That is for sure.

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