Her response? “big deal” and walked away... LOL
It was a big deal to me- I think my love for science started that day. I just could not get over that two guys were actually standing on that thing I was looking at right that second.
I was a 10 year old boy too on July 20, 1969. My experience was very similar to yours.
Though it was late in the evening, our whole family was huddled around the TV watching the extraordinary event. Since it was in the middle of summer, we had a box fan running in the living room (with metal blades — not plastic) to help keep us comfortable. That was long before we got central air and the window unit needed a little help.
I remember as I was laying on my back on the floor, I used an old wicker basket purse that belonged to my mother to prop my head up. I think mom and dad still have the box fan somewhere in their garage. I couldn’t begin to tell you what happened to the wicker purse.
Like you, I went outside to look at the moon, and like you, I was having a hard time believing there were men on the moon at that very moment. That was a glorious, triumphal event from long ago in America’s past.
How far we have fallen! These days, I am saddened the US doesn’t even have a manned space program.