Yes! We got to experience the Total Solar Eclipse! We are staying at a Thousand Trails park on Lake Tawakoni, about 60 miles east of Dallas. The park itself is probably the nicest Thousand Trails park we’ve ever been in. We got here several days before the eclipse and had a chance to relax. It’s nice to actually ‘camp’ again. We even sat outside around a fire for a little while one night!

We’d been watching the local weather and unfortunately they were calling for heavy cloud cover for the day of the eclipse. We woke up that morning to almost total cloud cover but decided to go set up near the lake to watch the eclipse anyway. We figured even if we couldn’t see the sun we’d at least experience the darkness during totality.

About an hour before the start of the eclipse it was still completely cloudy and we had a hard time finding the sun. Then as the eclipse began the clouds moved and we started getting glimpses of the sun!!! Luckily those glimpses kept getting bigger and we were able to see the full sun for most of the eclipse! We also experienced 4 minutes of totality, which is hard to explain but is awe-inspiring!! Another thing that was pretty cool was an intense solar flare that was easily visible to the naked eye!

This video shows the early cloud cover clearing up, then the dramatic change in light during totality!!! To watch the video, click on this link: https://youtu.be/Y13-iecqQ8s