Perseid meteor shower

On Tue night we were told that there is this meteor shower that we could catch later on in the night or Wed early morning... We were also told that this meteor shower has been going on for some already and the peak was on Wed morning... Well we had never seen a meteor shower before and were rather excited by the thought that there was a possibility that we could see them! A search on the Web when we got home gathered more info on this meteor shower... Its name is Perseids and it is an annual event during this period which has been observed for about 2000 years. As a matter of fact, some scientists believe that the Perseids could produce up to 100 meteors per hour this year. The time to view the shooting stars will be from midnight till before dawn.

Some tips to viewing the shooting stars are:

1. Look for a safe and dark place, away from city lights.
2. Look to the east/northeast in the hours after midnight.
3. Put an obstruction between the moon and yourself to shield away some of the moon light.

We decided that we will be wake up early to go shooting stars viewing since it is not everday that we get to see them! =p However we were not sure where will be a good place to view the shooting stars... A friend asked if we wanted to go together with him and we agreed with the offer! We arranged to meet at the McDonald's near Pay Less at 3:50am and we can then follow his car to the viewing spot... Yippie!!

After midnight, we decided to venture out around in PV to see if we could catch any of the meteors... =p We realised that the moon was really big and bright that night, no wonder there was the warning on the exceptionally bright moon that night and the tip to shield away the moon light. We walked around with our heads looking up in the sky but failed to see any shooting stars. Not sure if it is because PV was too bright... We then returned home and hoped that we would be more lucky later on...

We woke up at around 3.15am after only going to bed at 1am... Yawnz... YH went down first to check on the weather while I was getting ready... A while later he came up and told me excitedly that he had saw a shooting star!! I was wide awake now and really excited and quickly got ready and left home... And it was true while walking to our car, we saw another one, it was rather bright!! On the drive there, I kept looking at the sky and saw more shooting stars!! =)

The spot which we went to view the meteors was rather dark... The road we were on had some buildings on the left and the right was some farm land... We parked our car and stood by it with our heads up in the sky... =p The moon was really bright too and we had back face it so as to block its light... We did see the shooting stars, most rather faint and a few brighter ones!! YH tried to take photos or videos of them but had no luck and was rather disappointed... =p

We left our viewing spot around 5:15am... While driving home we decided to drop by McDonald's for breakfast before going home to sleep... =p

Hot teas to drink after standing in the cold...

Big Breakfast which we think looks rather pathetic... Prefered the egg in the Big Breakfast back in SG...

YH ordered this without consulting me and he got a shock when he opened the box! Looks even more pathetic than my Big Breakfast... Hehe...

After this it was back home to Zzzzzz....