Supermoon Lunar Eclipse

Did you know that Wednesday morning’s lunar eclipse was the first blue moon total lunar eclipse in the U.S. since March 1866? That’s around when the Civil War ended! To mark the occasion, we decided to wake up super early on my hubby’s birthday and go out on the boat. It was a frigid 32…

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Field Tripping Vol 1: the Solar Eclipse in NC

We started the school year off with a field trip to the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina! We visited family, went apple picking, saw the total eclipse of the sun, camped out, visited a hands-on children’s museum, got stuck in really bad traffic, and even exhaled! Quite the exciting weekend! Before we left I…

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