Celestial Adventure

Last night, my husband woke me and the youngest child up at 3am and we went on a minivan excursion.

We went in search of the unobstructed NE sky.

It was a night of meteor showers in that direction.

But for heaven's sake (pun?) we could not find that part of the sky.

There are too many trees and hills near us and it was blocked from view.

We did see a young buck run across a street in front of us.

We did see lots of stars everywhere else.

After an hour, we came back home and went to sleep.




Thematically, a couple kids and I had gone to a NASA center to look at a museum and visiters' center yesterday. We saw a real Moon rock and the Mercury capsule that landed in 1960.


This morning, my oldest child told me that he and a couple friends had watched shooting stars from a field on the other side of the hills (the meteors!)