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Legends and Lanterns 2024

It’s that time of year again, when we make lots of trips to St. Charles, MO!

This past weekend, we were on historic Main Street for Legends and Lanterns. It’s always nice to see the characters…like greeting old friends (or enemies, depending on your point of view!).

Since we’ve been reading The Wizard of Oz, we were especially excited to see the Wicked Witch of the East, and we were especially thrilled when she showed off her shoes…silver, like in the book!

And it’s always a treat to see Rizzo, the Big Bad Wolf, lurking just outside of Grandma’s Cookies:

There are frightful decorations everywhere you look.

And on the way home, we stopped at Sonic for a Witch’s Brew caramel apple boba slush float, which was truly tasty!

Next up in just a few(ish) weeks…Christmas Traditions!

Solar Eclipse Day

Today was a much-anticipated day…the 2024 Solar Eclipse finally arrived!

We’ve been looking forward to the eclipse for a long time, and we’ve been enjoying themed treats for a couple of weeks now, including the Solar Eclipse Sundae from Lic’s Deli and Ice Cream, the Blackout Slush Float from Sonic, and Solar Eclipse Doughnuts from Krispy Kreme:

I had a whole themed out for today, including this cute grouping of space-themed Erstwilder brooches:

Our area was over 99% eclipsed. I’m not going to lie…it wasn’t as cool as the Great American Eclipse of 2017 when we were in the full totality zone, but it was still really awesome. The darkness gradually fell, the street lights came on, the temperature dropped, and the crickets started chirping. Pictures don’t do it justice, because it really did get quite dark (we needed lights inside the house, too), and we watched the light waves move across the ground just like we did in 2017:

I repeated one of the meals we had for the last eclipse, too…eggs sunny side up, eclipsed by “moon muffins.”

And we also had Excel Brewing’s Darkest Hour black cherry soda and Moon Pies, of course!

We are so lucky to have witnessed two eclipses in less than 10 years…I know they’re experiences I won’t forget!