The sky was just stunning and the photos obviously do no justice.. But it was still encouraging that at least a small fraction of the stars we saw could be captured in the photograph, and there is a mild fuzz showing the milky way..
And then I tried to photoshop a few pictures using a very basic tutorial listed here: http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-shoot-the-night-sky-introduction-to-astrophotography
And these were the results:
I don't like them that much - I wish the results were subtler edits of the originals, and didn't have this 'redness' in the photos. But I guess that this at least means that I will start taking more pictures.

