Space Odyssey.....!!

So did you all watch the skies last night for the meteor shower? During my day in Alaska my Facebook feed was full of my British friends reporting seeing shooting stars, so I wrote myself a note which simply said "Meteor Shower!" and stuck it to my Elmo sandwich box so that I would be reminded when I got home from work. Alaska is 9 hours behind the UK so I was hopeful we might see something that night...
So at 11:30pm we all trooped outside; myself, Perfect Husband, Whiney Dog, and Small Dog. Perfect Husband and I sat in garden chairs with our faces turned upwards towards the Heavens, he wearing a light jacket, and me wearing boots, thick jacket and Small dog on my lap, a large fluffy blanket over us both. Whiney Dog lay on the ground wishing for food.
We waited. And waited. The skies were covered in a thin veil of clouds, and we felt sure we wouldn't see anything at all. But after a while the clouds started to clear away revealing a few stars, so we sat in silence and enjoyed the view, and the peace and quiet. Then suddenly a huge bright meteor streaked across the sky, like lightening! How thrilling! And even though we waited out there in the hopes of more, and didn't see any, we were still happy to have seen just that one. Happy to be a tiny part of the Grand Scheme of Things and to take the time to stop and appreciate the wonders of the Cosmos.
In other news, there was a lady wearing pink pajamas on the bus this morning, also a man wearing a most peculiar hat, and the Grand Finale was a Mad Lady who was muttering loudly to herself and thanking God very profusely for all his work...... I wonder if she'd also sat out in her garden and seen that same meteor, and thought it was some kind of message......who knows? She spent the majority of the bus journey saying "ooh" in various voices...
Today's pic is my artist's impression of our star gazing experience.......