I forgot to say it earlier: Happy Easter!
I was very excited this week to learn that there would be a lunar eclipse this weekend. I thought Lloyd and I could go camping Friday night and catch it while we were there. The forecast was too cold to actually camp, so we did the next best thing: I made us drive to the lake at 5:30 Saturday morning to watch it.
We layered up for the cold, I packed up some equipment to make tea and coffee, we loaded the car and were off. On the way, the earth’s shadow was almost halfway across and we worried we might miss it, but we were fine.
We got to the lake around 6. I set up a quick campfire, poured some tea, and then we settled back to watch the moon in the freezing cold wind coming off the lake. Oh, and it was smokey. Really smokey. Lloyd cried from all the smoke.
It was still cool, though. The Blood Moon (when the moon goes full eclipse and looks red) was supposed to happen around 7. As the moon sank in the sky, it slowly disappeared more and more and was finally gone. The sky was getting so light, and we waited for the Blood Moon to appear… and waited…. 7:00 came and went and we waited…. and the sky kept getting lighter… and we waited….
Then we realized. We weren’t going to see it. The moon had set.
Dang it!!! We laughed pretty hard about it.
(It was supposed to be right there.)
Brad says
I’ve never gotten up early to see an astronomical event. I should do that some day.
Lauren says
Are you kidding? Don’t you get up every day to see a flaming ball of gas appear in the sky?
Deborah says
Happy Easter!
Lloyd says
It wasn’t really the smoke that made me cry. I just told Lauren that.