Venus, Venus, where art thou?

Last night was quite a disappointment. Venus didn't even show up for her date. Left us stoning, waiting for her. The members familiarised themselves with the telescopes, and we conducted our first lesson (or more appropriately, CMY conducted the first lesson). Then Samuel "discovered" Jupiter. We stayed a little later than usual, and then the moon finally turned up, but constantly evaded behind the clouds. And that was it. A rather boring Astronomy session. Let's hope it gets better next week...