Universal Magic

Partial solar eclipse!

Joyce and I wandered outside about 10 minutes till the "peak" of the solar eclipse, in search of the sun. Walking along Andrassy, we just had to find the street where we could spot the sun between the buildings. After wandering for about 8 minutes, questioning the void "Where is the sun?!", we finally spotted it in a side street.

Now, the tricky part of a solar eclipse is you're not supposed to actually stare into it. We knew there was some trick with getting the reflection on a blank sheet of paper, but after a few minutes of foolishly holding the paper up to the sun without really considering the science of shadows behind it, we had a moment of fuck it--let's stare for just a sec. So we both took turns with sunglasses to look straight into the sun and saw it! It was an incredible crescent sun and hard to look away. But we did reluctantly and had spots in our vision for a few hours moments afterwards (worth it though hehe).

Luckily, there was also a group of the most altruistic, mysterious "nerds" (aka highly intelligent Big Bang Theory vibe superstars) who set up a contraption with a cardboard box and telescope so the solar eclipse was reflected in the box.

baby eclipse :)

After reveling in the wonder of how wonderful universal phenomena are, we went to a flower market in a nearby square. Joyce had a lovely thought to surprise a friend with daffodils--random act to brighten someone's day. Later, we found out she had actually had some bad news earlier in the day and the daffodil surprise had cosmically "eclipsed" :-P her sadness. So wonderful when things align that way.