I am heartbroken this morning

That's pretty much all we can do at this point. I know it was a difficult decision for the school.

@spiderdust Yeah. Maybe next year.

@spiderdust I see. We have Christmas markets in every town and every city here in Germany. The big cities have huge Christmas markets.

@thelme55 Yes, this one was capturing some of the atmospheres of the German Christmas markets. I found out that this would have been the school's 10th anniversary of hosting the market.

This one was only for today, so sadly there won't be one this year after all.

@spiderdust Thats's good they going again and pretty sure it is be flexible for sure, must be scary but many things are these day. Neat people back and people do get a kick how things used to work.

This whole event is a big fundraiser for the German immersion school, so I wonder how much the cancellation will hurt them overall. At least they're still selling items at the school today (and I just heard back from a family member who went over there that it's very crowded there right now) and they did list the websites for all of the vendors who were supposed to be selling their wares at the market so that people can still buy things from them.

I hope so... maybe we can still create a little holiday magic for ourselves.

@spiderdust Yes you will

@spiderdust What a shame! I am really sorry, you were so excited to go. At least they could post the list of the vendors, it is a shame also for all those who crafted for Christmas if they cannot sell their items.

No, it's completely canceled for the year. There are too many things that would have to be rescheduled in order to hold the event (such as closing off streets), and there's just not time for them to do that. Instead, the school sold the items that they had prepared for the market (the souvenir mugs and steins, the Stollen and other cakes, the sausages and sauerkraut, jugs of Kinderpunsch, and the wooden ornaments and arches imported from Germany) at the school itself. They posted a list of the vendors who had planned to have stalls at the market so that people could visit their websites and still purchase items from them.

@LadyDuck I think one of the other reasons why they cannot reschedule the market is because the vendors are already booked for other events. I think the school actually lost money by cancelling the event because they had to refund the vendors for their stall rentals; they had something on their website about where people could donate funds to offset what they lost.

@spiderdust Nice! I'm happy it did. Looking forward to your next post.

It was very nice! I'll post about it in a bit.

Sadly, they do not have another date. The event requires closing off roads and hiring security and such, and it's just too late to reschedule all of that again before the end of the month. I know the school only cancelled it because they felt they had no choice.

Yeah, we've been looking forward to it all year. At least we're still able to pick up the mementos. but I was also looking forward to seeing all the German wooden ornaments and decorations. They're often too expensive for me to buy, but they're lovely.

I wrote about that in another post titled "Making the best of things".

@spiderdust I shall read it.