More Fireworks

Posted on 2015/11/07 00:03:13 (November 2015).

[Friday 6th November 2015]
Erika hadn't really seen any of the fireworks yesterday, so we thought it might be nice to take her along to the very child friendly display held this evening at Coram's Fields, which started at 5pm. So I left work early and met Chie and Erika there. We were also joined by one of Erika's friends from nursery, her parents, a friend of Chie's and her son, and also coincidentally bumped into one of the teachers from Erika's nursery.

Although Erika liked the build up to the fireworks, dancing around with her friends and their glow sticks, once the actual display started it quickly became apparent she really didn't like fireworks at close quarters like this. It was pretty loud I suppose. I tried to make it better by moving a bit further back, and then tried to distract her with a go on the teacups ride they had set up in one corner of the park, but she clearly just wasn't happy with the noise. So I did my best to take her out of the park, which turned out to be a bit of a feat - the entrance was very overcrowded, and it was actually worrying - given the presence of pyrotechnics it wouldn't be that hard to imagine some kind of accident taking place, and then lots of people would be pretty much trapped.

Took Erika to the nearby Brunswick Centre while we waited for Chie to get out of Coram's Fields, and once she eventually did, we had a quick dinner at Itsu (Erika wanted to eat sushi), before making what felt like quite a long trek home, partly on foot, then the remainder by bus. Really should have put my foot down and just got a taxi.

Once back at home I rustled up dinner 2 (there wasn't much for me to eat at Itsu) - the rest of the tagliolini I'd brought back from Italy, along with dried porcini from Bassano del Grappa, and the bottle of Gevrey Chambertin Mum had sent the other day. Delicious.

Good!

Posted by John's Mum at 2015/11/07 09:02:40.

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