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Lots of amazing things happened. Imagine watching it all happen. Given the data you had at each moment, how many complete shocks awaited you?
As the universe cooled, you'd see phase change after phase change where new behavior appeared, and probably you wouldn't have the data to have predicted those phase changes. How long before there were stable atomic nuclei? How long before everything wasn't a plasma? How long before chemistry? Stars? Supernova? Galaxies? Planets? Black holes? Pulsars?
I think that's a lot of amazing things to have happened.
Stephen Baxter does a very good job of evoking this in his SF anthology Vacuum Diagrams, I think, although of course we don't know there actually were such forms of life at each stage you mentioned. :)
Ooh, I read his novel Evolution and found it to be extremely enjoyable. It's the evolution of humans from a little ratlike mammal thing living through the KT-event, all the way through to modern humans and then speculative extension beyond - but each chapter is a narrative about some individual actual creature going through a significant event in its life, with realistic depiction of the increasing cognitive abilities (i.e. no sapient monkeys). I found it gave me an amazing subjective feeling of perspective on the evolution of primates and humans. Heartily recommended.