Shooting Stars

Tonight was the Leonid meteor shower, did any of you check it out? I did and I was rewarded with a measly three meteors. The first was amazing. It really was a ball of fire crossing the sky, it was so big I first thought it was fireworks. How stupid is that? Fireworks don't move down, they move up! Still it was a rather amazing two seconds of falling space junk. The other two I saw were very unimpressive and were just small streaks of light against the sky. I guess that makes the first one more impressive?