Full Moon Fever

We got to see the "mooner" eclipse! We're not calling it that anymore though. Peanut knows now that her terminology was slightly off, thanks to everybody laughing and correcting her. It makes me a little sad. Like when she stopped saying "callapidder" instead of "caterpillar".


Anyway -- the eclipse! It was SO cool. We didn't think we would see any of it because it's so cloudy here, but these clouds moved fast and were full of holes so we pretty much saw the whole thing. We popped popcorn and turned out the lights and watched the moon disappear in front of our eyes. When it was completely covered with Earth's shadow, it was dark orange. By that time it was so high in the sky we had to go out on the front porch to see it. It's supposed to be in total eclipse until 10:50 and then will start coming out of Earth's shadow. We've seen enough though. It's cold outside and we're kind of wimpy.


There are not many things that will grab and keep the attention of our entire family. This was one. Brother and the girls kept passing the binoculars back and forth.

This was way better than getting up at 4:00am to watch a meteor shower in August. I didn't write a post about that because there was almost nothing to write about. You keep your eyes glued to the sky and propped open (at 4:00am remember), and if you're lucky you MIGHT see a small flash of light streak across the sky. Sit there 20 more minutes just like that and you might see another one.


I'll take a total mooner eclipse over that any day.