You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 32.

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Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Hey everybody, how are you? What are you doing?

I am fantastic. I just got back from Wyoming. I just got back from seeing the eclipse.

I drove there with my husband and it was amazing. I really tell you I cannot get over how surreal it was.

I was so excited for this trip and so excited to see the eclipse for the first time, but I will tell you it was way better than I could have anticipated.

There was a ton of coverage about the eclipse in the news and really kind of rightfully so because they're pretty rare.

They happen somewhere in the world every 18 months or so, but you have to be in the right place at the right time or also really out of luck.

For us, the eclipse wasn't headed over San Francisco and so we actually decided that we were going to drive about a thousand miles to see it.

The other kind of crazy piece of this is that the actual amount of time that the sun was completely covered by the moon and that period is called totality, it's really short.

For this eclipse, totality didn't even last three minutes. It's so crazy when I really think about the trip that we embarked upon because we drove about a thousand miles to Wyoming to see something that would last for 162 seconds.

In all the while, when we were headed there, we had no idea whether it would be cloudy, would we even be able to see the sun, but in the end it all worked out.

I'll tell you that in that really short window, the short window when the sun was in totality, the sun was completely covered by the moon.

All you could see was the corona, it was really weird if someone had lowered a dimmer switch on the sky and suddenly morning turned to sunset.

It didn't take long before all these birds started flying overhead and I realized they were going home to roost because the sky was telling them that day was done.

The sky was telling them, go home. The birds didn't know that an eclipse was happening, they didn't know that the sun set wasn't real, they didn't know that it was only temporary and that everything was going to go back to normal in three minutes time.

All they knew was that when the world goes dark, it's time to start preparing for night.

The sun and the sky for birds are cues that tell them what to do during different periods of the day and this is why we're talking about the eclipse.

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