Christmas
Christmas wasn't so "white" as most of the white stuff was turning to ice and slush.
Alan, one of Chris's work colleagues, and his wife Donna joined us for Christmas lunch. In Germany, the traditional lunch is a roast goose, potato dumplings and red cabbage. We decided to avoid the red cabbage but the goose and dumplings were superb. Thanks Kate.
The girls loved all of their presents especially the sled. We also enjoyed a number of saxaphone solos from Ada.
To walk off the excess of lunch we went for a stroll down to the main pedestrian street to visit the local markets. It was only around 3.30 pm when we left home so, as you can see from the pictures, it gets dark early.
Yesterday, the 26th, we went for a walk around the lake which is next to our apartment building. For the history buffs, the tudor-esque, neo-Prussian building is Schloss Cecilienhoff where Stalin, Truman and Churchill signed the Potsdam agreement which determined the occupation and reconstruction of Germany and set the scene for the focus of the Cold War in Europe.
Today we are going to the Sony centre to see a Legoland and an English version movie - did we mention we get thirty television stations - all in german.
