So last night we stayed in Flagstaff centre, enjoyed a steak at Cuvee 98, then took a slow walk in the pitch black up to 1400 West Mars street (a whopping great hill over a mile in length) to the Lowell Observatory.

Tonight was supposed to be the best night to observe a meteor shower, however the clouds prevented seeing anything. There was a talk by one of the egg heads on what Meteors actually are, along with lots of “American” questions, “so like in the film where Bruce Willis saved the planet from a Meteor, is that like possible”.

We got to see the Clark Telescope, however since there was a heavy lightning storm they couldn’t get the thing our for fear of it acting as a 32 foot lightning rod.

All told a nice end to a fantastic day, apart from having to treat poor Mrs Fogg’s midge bites, one is actually the size of a satsuma, ouch!