Ontario couple shares total eclipse birthdays — 25 years apart

Solar eclipses are rare, and catching one on your birthday is even rarer.  But for one Ontario couple, that’s a distinction they’ll soon both be able to claim.

Judi Jewinski celebrated her birthday in Paris during the August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse. That’s a rarity her husband Ed Jewinski will share when he celebrates his birthday during Monday’s total solar eclipse.

“We were driving one day and I realized, ‘Wait a minute, we met 50 years ago. Twenty-five years ago you, on your birthday, had an eclipse. Now it’s 25 years later… and I have an eclipse on my birthday,” Ed Jewinski recalled.

“So we thought, ‘How many have had double the experience in one lifetime in one marriage as one couple?’ We thought, ‘What are the odds?'”

The best, part, says Judi: “The sharing of it – that we’re both still together and we’re both seeing the second eclipse.”