Solar Eclipse "Excitement"

Everyone made such a huge deal about the solar eclipse! People were sending out warnings about not looking at the sun. Others were frantically searching for eclipse glasses. Some even kept their kids home from school because they were scared that they were going to look at the sun and go blind. I found it odd because you can go blind any day if you look at the sun, but whatever :) We stayed home, and made a few eclipse viewers out of boxes and used Cory's welding mask to peek at the sun every few minutes. The girls were less than impressed, but when I explained that when light comes through a hole it should always be a circle, but it wasn't during the eclipse they kind of got it. They were still pretty "meh" about the whole thing, but I understand. It wasn't all that exciting, but we experienced it safely ;) Will they remember it forever? Probably not, but they will if they read this. If nothing else, they all looked adorable in the welding mask!