Sony Centre & Hauptbahnhof

As it gets dark here so early, you really get to appreciate the Christmas lights. 

By 4pm, it is dark enough to see all the wonderful lights displays. Here is the Xmas tree outside the Sony Centre. You can have a go at curling... Or the kids can have a practise at skiingThere is the ice skating, and the tube snow ride too.

In Potsdamer Platz shopping centre there is a great display of trains to watch. 

Alexander, Cameron and Bradley were happy to stand there and watch the trains for about 30 minutes. Sonia and Phil took the opportunity to run into the supermarket to find something for dinner.

We had been to see Happy Feet together. The boys enjoyed it, and Bradley did some great dancing.

There is an impressive tree, at the Hauptbahnhof train station. The whole tree is covered in Swarovski crystal decorations.

It was so big, I couldn't stand back far enough to get the whole tree in the picture. It was surrounded by 7 foot glass panels, so you couldn't take a souvenir. I wonder what the dollar value of the tree would have been??