GUEST thank you for sharing that! The thrill is enough to last a lifetime, isn't it!

Funny, as I read your post I just remembered an incident last summer with my son. My son Eric, in fact!

We were outside one night having a smoke (tobacco, just to clarify that!). I asked "WHY do you always turn that outside light on when you have a smoke at night!" It annoys me, and as I went to shut it off he said "Well why do YOU like standing out here in the dark all the time?"

I said "Because I love to look at the stars! See how beautiful they are! Look up ... that's Mars. There's Venus. That's Orion. And I see shooting stars too, sometimes a dozen or so a night."   

He snorted in ridicule, and as he turned his eyes skyward he said "So what? What's the big deal? They're always there, they're always the same, they ..." and at that very moment, a big sparkling shooting star whizzed by right over our heads, cutting off his words.

Well, his jaw dropped open. So did mine! And after a minute or 2, when he could finally wrench his eyes away from that sparkling firmament, he told me "Y'know, I've never seen a shooting star before".

:-)    Hee hee!