我们大概5点到公园。公园中间已添加了一个溜冰场。在亮灯之前，有一些风笛和溜冰表演。亮灯仪式很简单。之后的烟花倒是挺精彩的。在挤出人山人海的公园途中，靖恒看见两粒白色的气球在天空飘。他看着气球，想抓。不过气球飘远了，就像旁边那圆圆的月亮，抓也抓不到了。
挪威献给爱丁堡的圣诞树：
我们尝试带靖恒一起进一个教堂听演唱会。可是气氛太严肃了。靖恒吭一声都嫌太吵，我们只好腼腆地出去。
夜晚走在回家的路上。
Edinburgh's Winter Wonderland at the Princes' Street Gardens. The East Princes' Street Gardens has turned into a big carnival, with a skating rink as its centre piece. As it was the Light Night, which marked the official opening of all Christmas attractions in Edinburgh, it was crowded. It was also cold, but quite worth the effort (to get there and shiver). There were bagpipe band and ice skating performance. After the rather disappointing lights up, there was a spectacular fireworks display to the background music of 'Jingle Bells Rock' and one really felt some warmth then. I must try to remember, that Christmas is really a happy occasion, and not the dreary and shivery winter it comes clothed in.
Back to practicalities, we could hardly find a place to have dinner - the few available restaurants (cheap and child-friendly) were crowded. So we ended up having some hot soup at Marks & Spencers.
After that, we walked to St Giles Cathedral, for the Norwegian Advent Carol Concert held at 7pm. The choir was beautiful, the setting perfect; but it was just not possible to stay for the whole event with Ethan there. For every time Ethan spoke, we could feel the disturbance in the otherwise harmonious sound waves and we became very small. So we left half-way through.
24/11：舞台表演
我们搭巴士到一个港口观赏一个露天演出。草地上搭了两个舞台。一边是唱歌和乐队，一边是表演。演员很简单地演绎一段关于圣诞的诗。不过，它的特别之处是有起重机吊着仙女，圣诞老人，雪橇等在半空中旋转。完毕，还有烟花。今晚的月亮更圆更亮，风也更冷。什么是‘刺骨’，今天真是太能了解了！
之后，反正要换巴士才能回到宿舍，我们便搭车到举办亮灯仪式的那条街。为了让靖恒坐旋转木马，我们付了5镑。一人两镑半，（小孩没有特价，加上我得陪靖恒）。我说这里没有什么适合幼童玩的，除了旋转木马，他们当然不会放过賺这比钱的机会。
苏格兰高原和德国传统的'pasar malam':
The Ocean Terminal. There were singers and a band performing contemporary Christmas songs, and a stage rendition of the popular poem, The Night Before Christmas. The weather was so cold, especially with the wind. However, the thinly clad performers still went on, with fairies and Santa Claus flying above us (hung from two big cranes). It ended with fireworks. With the fireworks so close to us, it was barely worth it to have to bear the cold.
After that, we took the bus to Princes' Street. I wanted to let Ethan try the carousel. Although it cost us five pounds (no concession for toddlers, and we had to pay for two since one of us must accompany Ethan), Ethan and I went on it nevertheless. Somehow, I was bent on letting him sit on a carousel, even if he won't be able to remember this years from now. We walked through the Highland Village market and took photos in front of the Traditional German's market but did not stroll through it - time to go home for dinner. After Thursday's bad experience with eating out, we'll do with home-cooked HOT meals.
25／11： 两个晚上这样出去。今天下午和晚上，靖恒拿起袜子穿在手上，说要穿手套。他还自己把脚放进靴里要出门。还好他没有太吵闹。
The aftermath of going out on two evenings. He wanted to go out again this afternoon. And to demonstrate his intention, he used the socks for gloves (so very determined indeed), and put his feet into the boots by himself. Well, we told him we were not going out tonight, and he did not insist too much. Let's see if there would be a repeat of this tomorrow.
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