Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Shooting stars and other fun snippets











It's been such a whirlwind of activity these past 3 weeks.
Most of the activity has been work related with little snippets of fun added inbetween and after.

Snippets of fun like

Spending time with friends (old and new)
Seeing Niagara Falls again
Breakfast at Stella's Diner
Sunday morning flea market
Laughs at Kelly Cole's Improper
Scrabble by the lake
Pastabilities for dinner x2
Pool games won and lost
Dinosaur BBQ for biker watching
Boatrides
Shooting stars*
Sangria and swimming
Bonfires big and small
S'mores
Castle cruising
Backgammon & rain on a tin roof

*shooting stars -
you must keep your eyes glued to the starry skies in order to catch one (at least I did).
Not really a tough thing to do when the sky itself is such a light show of stars to begin with.
Catching sight of one is well worth the wait and the neck ache.
FYI - A shooting star is not really a shooting star.
A shooting star is really a small piece of rock or dust that hits Earth's atmosphere from space. It moves so fast that it heats up and glows as it moves through the atmosphere. Shooting stars are what astronomers call meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the ground. However, once in a while a meteor is large enough that some of it survives and reaches the Earth's surface.

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