What's your first memory of the night sky?

I don't really remember my first.  What I do recall is when I was about 8 years old visiting friends out in the country on the Brazos River in Centeral Texas.  It was August and the meteor shower was in full glory. We wished on a lot of falling stars that night.  I now do an exercise routine with my residents at the Assisted Living Center where I work, based on that experience.  We create a ball of Tai chi engergy between our legs and raise it up to the heavens to become a star in the Milky Way or another galaxy and let it go. The last star we raise in the series is always a falling star for all the children who need to make wishes. The elders love the ritual and it touches deep in the heart of anyone who has made a wish on a falling star.
My other favorite time was in the 1980's during the Harmonic Convergence.  I was working at DFW Intl Airport which is powered by solar energy. I happened to be working midnight shift.  I worked in the building which had our solar array on the roof. Huge solar cells, can't tell how many now, but big and abundant.  It was summer and the hot sun had fed the cells all day long. About 3AM in the silence left after literally millions of people had traversed the halls and shadows of the airport, I took my 'lunch' break atop the roof among the solar array.  There was an immense full moon surrounded by millions of stars looking down on the surreal landscape of the barren airport.  I sat there for an hour with a large quartz crystal meditating and absorbing the throbbing energy of mother earth, the human trancendance and the powers of the sky. It was an incredible experience. One which I will always cherish.