Staff Faculty Day

The third Monday in August is always a day for hanging out with all the staff and faculty. This year, that coincided with the lunar eclipse. So the theme for the day was science.

Everyone got special glasses for viewing the eclipse. If you didn't have a pair of those, or some other contraption to view the eclipse, you probably would have thought it was much ado about nothing.

Since the kids were still off school, they came with me.

Have you ever viewed an eclipse before? I expected the world to get very dark and that it would be really obvious something was up. But it didn't, although I feel like the colour changed. And it got several degrees cooler.

When we'd had enough of watching outside, we ventured into the science building to watch live on the big screen. The lecture hall was set up so we could do that.

 It was pretty rad to see it all happen like this. I'm glad we got to be a part of it because I probably wouldn't have bothered otherwise.

 Outside my coworkers were doing dances...to celebrate something to do with the sun and moon.

 Then we filled out a questionnaire.

Summer is for ice cream and outdoor movies

One of my dearest friends lives very close to Rocky Point Park. So it is often a meeting point for us. And even though we've been going there for years now, we still discover new things. This particular day, we grabbed lunch at Pajos, then we wandered down the pier.

Even on cloudy days it's beautiful. This is part of an inlet that stretches in from the ocean.

I love wandering down to the water.

On this occasion, we found jelly fish.

 There were SO many! And they ranged from loonie sized to saucer sized.

 Really cool.

 Julius often brings candy for the kids.

 And then, since I had my camera and I'm trying to practice the skills I'm learning, I asked the boys if I could take a picture.

 This is what they did.

 And then this.

And this was pretty much the best I could get.

 A rare moment where they weren't fighting.

 And Nate posing for the camera again.

 The after effects of the candy Juls provided.

 We finally got ice cream. I mean, isn't that the whole point of coming?

And later, we went to a movie.

 Moana in the park. It was a really good movie! I knew all the songs already from my kids - they were addicted to them before they even saw the movie.