It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas

So, aside from the snow, which started falling again yesterday, Christmastime is in full swing over here. 

Actually, some Christmas decorations were up the first day in November, I guess thats acceptable since they don't have Thanksgiving here. 

There are Christmas markets in abundance which sell food and drinks, toys, gifts, clothing, and soon - live carp. So many stores have lights covering the outside, and there are lights decorating all the streets. 

All these pictures were taken from the same street corner: 

This is an Advent calendar in the mall windows, each day of the month gets replaced with a lighted picture. 

This is a very small example of the Christmas markets that are everywhere. Downtown they are many more stalls. This particular one has a smoked ham cooking over the fire that you can order. 

This is how all the streets look, though there are different lights. 

And it's Christmas in our house too! 

Our Santa ornament from Paris