Paducah for the Total Eclipse

Eric made a camera obscura. We also discovered other crescent shadow shapes which was mind bending.

Before the eclipse playing pokemon cards and eating popcorn.

Eclipse Viewing

There was a nice group assembled in front of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah. People came from all over. The darkness fell and Eric’s app told us when it was safe to look up with the naked eye and when to put our eclipse glasses back on. A man shared his telescope so we could get a closer look.

We stayed at a Comfort Inn with a pool the night before.

Sharing a bed did not help them get to sleep.

Ezri was suitably impressed by the crescent sun. The coolness of the air and darkness of mid-day with Venus visible in the sky was eerily amazing.

The 12 hour drive through eclipse traffic jam to get home was epic in its own way. The 1am pouring thunderstorm was the cherry on the hours of parking lot of the expressway. The drive took 6 hours down by way of comparison. Still kids have declared it TOTALITY WORTH IT.