CNN’s on-air personalities were determined Monday that no one would have more fun than they were with the eclipse coverage, and there were even some interesting scientific educational moments interspersed throughout the festive fashion choices and puns.

Here is a sampling of some of the most delightfully unhinged moments from the morning’s coverage:

“Texas-sized” eclipse glasses and special energy

CNN correspondent Rosa Flores reported from Kerrville, Texas, in the path of totality, where the mayor said they were expecting up to 100,000 visitors. Flores showed off the town’s “Texas-sized” eclipse glasses, as well as her own eclipse earrings.

Flores also visited a local store called “Zen & Alchemy” that was not only peddling eclipse-themed jewelry and clothing, but also promoting the positive “energy” that the celestial event would bring. She wrapped the segment by waving a pendant at the camera “trying to ward off the evil weather that’s trying to kill this eclipse” — the cloudy weather that has loomed over the region all day.

Gettin’ hitched in Arkansas 

CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam was in Russellville, Arkansas to interview Craig Wayne Boyd, the country singer who won season 7 of The Voice in a hot air balloon where Boyd will later officiate the weddings of an estimated more than 350 couples.

“Hoping to top Einstein”

CNN News Central anchor Kate Bolduan interviewed two “eclipse chaser” scientists, one of whom met his wife at an eclipse viewing event in Peru — about their planned observational experiments for the eclipse. One of these experiments will recreate one from a century ago that helped confirm one of Albert Einstein’s predictions of the theory of relativity, that the gravity of the sun can bend star light as it goes past.

“Hoping to top Einstein — no small feat,” Bolduan commented.

Bri-clipse Keilar and Boris Sun-chez

CNN dispatched anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez to Indianapolis, Indiana. Sanchez joked that Keilar “had threatened physical violence” unless he referred to the eclipse as a “Bri-clipse,” and Keilar interjected to say that he was now “Boris Sun-chez,” cracking up their colleagues who were back in the CNN Newsroom studio.

A little fortune telling

Flores returned for the 10 am ET hour to chat with Jim Acosta about the worries Texans were having about the cloudy weather obscuring their view. Her report included a video clip of her interviewing the Kerrville mayor, who said she had “checked my magic ball this morning, and it says no rain and we’re going to be able to see it.”

Flores, wearing a scarf around her head, then told Acosta she had borrowed the mayor’s crystal ball and held up a small glass ball to the camera.

Bill Nye the Science Guy helps protect Acosta’s beagle 

Acosta also chatted with Bill Nye, who shared important information about how to safely observe the eclipse (don’t look at the sun!). The anchor also asked The Science Guy about how to protect his beloved rescue beagle Duke during the eclipse.

Pounding beers and getting tattoos

Senior national correspondent Miguel Marquez was so excited about being in Cleveland to observe his first total solar eclipse that he said he was going to participate with the local vendors, a brewery that had special eclipse-themed beers and a tattoo parlor offering specialized designs.

“As soon as I get away from you guys, I’m going to go to that to that tattoo parlor, pound some beers and get a tattoo,” Marquez told Keilar and Sanchez, “but only if I can get both your names somewhere.”

The two anchors laughed, and Keilar told Marquez that if he does tattoo their names, “Boris is the sun and I am the moon, we decided, so just work that in there.”

Time shall tell if this rivals the 2017 New Year’s Eve when former CNN anchor Don Lemon rang in the new year by getting his ear pierced on live television.

“What made the tortoises so randy?” 

John Berman got perhaps the most plum assignment of the network’s eclipse coverage: getting to interview the biological sciences professor who observed during a previous eclipse that Galápagos tortoises “began moving much faster and some started mating.”

“What made the tortoises so randy?” the clearly amused CNN News Central anchor asked Dr. Adam Hartstone-Rose, who was at the Fort Worth zoo to observe the behavior of the animals during the eclipse. Berman also asked him about how house pets might react.

“I can’t wait to see what you find out,” said Berman, jokingly urging the professor to “give the tortoises the privacy they need, that’s my only request.”

“They’re going to be very much overexposed, unfortunately, but we’ll see cool things, that’s for sure,” replied Hartstone-Rose.

“It depends what your definition of cool is,” said Berman.

Watch the video clips above via CNN.

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