Espe invited a good friend of hers, Gema, over for dinner last night. I was placed in charge of preparing a nice Thai meal. A challenge I always like to rise to. I prepared spring rolls followed by a green chicken curry. The spring rolls were the best I’ve made to date and the curry was good as always, albeit not very spicy. I erred on the side of caution due to my Spanish company however there is plenty of curry paste left to fix that for next time. A good effort, yet the simplest thing to prepare turned out the worst. The rice was to moist and starchy… Need to sort that out.

After dinner we jumped in the car and heading into the mountains to check out the Perseid Meteor storm. Unfortunately with a nearly full moon the sky was far to bright and many of the weaker stars and meteors were not visible. That said we still saw a few meteors. I reckon about 15, two of which were really big and went of for a while.

Unfortunately my efforts to capture any on film proved fruitless. No real surprise given the lack of a really wide angle lens and the infrequency of the meteors (without the moon, on average at least 1 meteor is visible per minute). Still, the photos turned out pretty well regardless.

My favorite is below, but I’ve also started a gallery for “Astro Pics” which I hope to add to, as I think this type of photo are pretty unique.

I’d just like to add, that this photo has had no modification what so ever. It is as taken, and note I used no flash. The car and foreground is illuminated purely by the moonlight!