Opps forgot to tell you all one of the biggest Meteor showers all year is tonight looking in the western sky I believe. Geminid is the shower with about 75/hour and it will be viewable tonight late and predawn of 14th. So get your kids up at 0200am and have some hot choc. ready! =) Too bad it is so cloudy where we live tonight I doubt we will see anything! Jill
Oh Wonderful thanks for letting us know. Do you know of a site that tells you when stuff like this happens? Sam
One night a few years ago there was a meteor shower at about 2am and the kids wanted to see it. It was winter time and so cold. I set the alarm clock and got up and tried to wake the kids. One of our foster daughters was 17 and she got up and Katie was home from college so she got up too. The three of us went outside and watched for a long time. It was so beautiful. We got so cold we came and got quilts to wrap up in and the girls found a spot in the drive way to lay down and watch the show. The next morning all 7 of the other kids were asking why we didn't get them up too!
Hey, Beth, Joyce and I were talking about that one last night! I'm figuring it is the same one because we were laughing about the memory of it being sooo cold and my son was out there laying on his back on the cold ground so he could see better! I wanted to go try to see the one last night and didn't wake up when I needed to so I don't know if it was viewable or not. Joyce had wanted to see it but I was pushing to get her back to school today and knew she needed her sleep.
of course I had to find this now! Actually we wouldn't have seen it.. we have a tree line to the west of our house and it was very cloudy.. stupid weather anyway!
My dh and ds 14 got up at 2:00am and watched for a little while. They said they did not see as much as they would have liked. But they said what they did see was cool!
