A couple that we are friends with are heavily into stargazing and invited us to star gaze.
 Without thinking or knowing what it was about we said yes, always up for something new or different. We then found out it was an all nighter and we had to drive 2 hours for a spot that had no lights around and had to arrive before dusk so not to interfere with our car lights and the telescopes. And couldn't leave till 4am for the same reason...OK a little more unsure but still up for it.

We soon found out that nights in Washington aren't hot balmy nights and I was frozen with gloves and hat and blanket. It was completely cloudy till 1am which didn't further my enjoyment. After the 3rd 'you've got to see this nebula' and all you can see is a faint yellow glow, they all looked the same to me, I realised maybe I'm not going to be a true avid stargazer.

On the positive side though when it cleared up it was stunning and an array of stars. The milky way was as clear as it could be and a few more star constellations were pointed out to me and stuff was explained to me that was interesting.(the swan/northern cross, saw its twin star orbiting, the summer triangle etc)

 And a guy with his electronic telescope that knows on that night what is viewable and tells you and goes automatically to it was amazing and he was very generous showing us it all. One of the guys had a camera mounted to his telescope hopefully we can get some of his photos.

 And the Perseid meteor shower was beautiful, never seen more than one meteor/shooting star at a time.

Will probably do it again only if it finishes about midnight though and I can do it locally.