Eclipse day was Monday! The celestial event of the year, the thing you've been waiting for since 2017. I wasn't sure whether or not we were going to do anything in particular for the eclipse until Monday morning. But Monday it warmed up, the rain of the weekend cleared off, the clouds disappeared (mostly), and I decided that this could be a literally once in a lifetime event so we were going. The path of totality came so close to us, we just had to. The bad thing was that once I decided we should go see it, I couldn't find eclipse glasses anywhere in town. I checked at Walgreen's, CVS, Kroger, several gas stations, Meijer, Dollar General, Wal-Mart....nothing. Not long ago the town was awash in them. Now, they were all gone. So I made a pinhole projector out of a box and some foil (which worked, very nicely) and called it good. Just after noon Beth and Nat and I headed out in the direction of Marion. We thought maybe we could get all the way to Muncie and see it with Missy, but we wanted to avoid major roads. SR-15 was pretty clear all the way to Marion, slow through Wabash but otherwise moving fine. We got to Marion, well within totality, and Beth wanted a coffee so we went to Starbucks. The patio there was clear too, and we had a good view of the southern sky, so we decided that was a good place to watch an eclipse. By the time we got there it was already starting but we had an hour or so until totality. There was a guy sitting on the patio who had his glasses on, and I asked if I could borrow them for a moment and he just gave us 3 pair. He had bought a package of 20 of them on Amazon for about $5 so he planned to give them away to anyone who needed them. So that was awesome! He had driven to Marion from Wisconsin that morning, and just found the place more or less at random. He just drove on the interstates until traffic got bad, then switched to state roads until he got to the path of totality, and found a place to watch. Anyway, we watched the show from the patio as it got darker and darker, then all the street lights and the patio lights came on, and I watched the last little sliver of the crescent sun disappear through the glasses, and when I took them off and saw the total eclipse, I literally stood there saying "wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww." What an incredible sight. Unfortunately no photo I've seen of it, including the ones I took, look anything like what I actually saw. After a few moments of not being able to get a good picture, I gave up and just watched it. Totality only lasted a couple minutes, and it was amazing how fast it went back to being blinding as soon as the moon moved off just a little. I'm so glad we went to see it, the real show of an eclipse is in totality. I had thought, well, Warsaw will have like 95% totality so that'll be a pretty good view...nope.... it is all or nothing. If you're not in totality, there's not much to see. Missy only had to walk outside the dorm to see everything, too bad Alex was so far away from it.

The rest of the week was very normal. Eye doctor and dentist appointments. On Friday, Natalie and I went back to Ohio with the truck to get the rest of her things. We got the dresser, the roll-top desk, and many boxes and clothes and stuff, and the car battery. We were able to get everything into the truck and get the cover over it, but it didn't rain so we were good anyway. Only the car left to get, which we'll do next week. It doesn't run, so looks like I'm getting a trailer. Oh, and on Saturday we took the dog to a clinic at Petsmart to get shots.