Darkness

It really is shocking how far north we are here in Berlin.  I mean,  Seattle is already pretty far north so you would think I would be used to it but on the shortest day of the year Berlin has 46 less minutes of daylight than Seattle.  This time of the year it starts getting dark here around 3:30 and the sun sets at 3:50 ish.
Pretty much the entire month of December it has been very dark still as we leave for school in the morning at 7:30 AM. 

Often there will be blue sky
during our very short days

On December 21st, the shortest day of the year Berlin has a day length of 7 hours and 39 minutes whereas Seattle has a day length of 8 hours and 25 minutes.  Of course on the longest day of the year we get it back and then some but right now the days just seem VERY very dark for most of the day.  It rains less here which helps because the skies are not constantly clouded over but still. It is dark.  SO SO happy that we are nearing in on the shortest day and then the days SLLLLOOOOWWWLLLY start getting longer.