For me, the thrill of the first precision let-down and seeing airport lights bang in front of me as I broke cloud a little above my DA was every bit as good as the first solo. 'Yes! I'm not going to die today!''
I think the point Roff made about not flying in crap weather is a good one, though those fine fellows and lasses in Exeter don't get it right all the time (to that point I feel they have struggled a bit in the second half of this year). Certainly around where I fly things often change for the worse pretty quickly, so the chance to divert to a long airport runway with a nice ILS and a friendly ATCO does feel good to me.