Glad you got airborne - flying in less than perfect weather with an instructor is something of great value to you whilst doing a PPL, imho.
You found it quiet because, unfortunately, the prevailing attitude amongst FTOs in this country is to stay put in the clubhouse sipping coffee rather than run even the tiniest bit of risk that they may run one of their precious flying machines and/or one of their cheap airline wannabee instructors into a gust of wind or a wisp of cloud.
I did my SEP revalidation in November 2006 with a highly experienced examiner and to my surprise we took off and conducted the flight in weather I would never had dreamed of flying in. Not in a zillion years. But you know what? it wasn't that bad...and boy was it a pricess learning experience.