Happy holidays!

Finally Christmas is almost there. It means we get to take some rest after weeks of life that go mindblowingly fast and days that have waaaaaaay too little hours in them. Too little to be able to train. So no training update whatsoever. The entire month of December, we haven't set foot in the gym. Oh yeah, Elian went for an hour but was completely exhausted and didn't make it much longer than that.  Elian's knee is still not doing what it's supposed to do, so after a visit to the physiotherapist and the orthopedic surgeon, she has to take 4 weeks of rest. FOUR! That's like... quite a feat for her. Four weeks of no training, taking the easy way everywhere in order to decrease the stress on her knee... it's like a mental training. Which is good as well, but not quite the way you want it to be.

In December we managed to get our first little bit of money together. It's not quite the capital we're looking for, but it's a start. It went quite different than how we thought it would go. The Christmas markets we were at weren't really well visited or weren't real Christmas markets, but more flea market meeting christmas market or neighborhood parties. When we thought things couldn't get worse... they got worse. Every time! We actually had posters printed to tell people where the money they spend would go to. Obviously not from all people, but there were several people that were pretty tired of the idea of spending money somewhere and their money going to a charity. Taking down the posters actually ensured us of more interested people, not thinking 'oh what kind of crap do I need to spend my money on now to support another charity' but looking with a more open mind at what we were actually selling and seeing it were actually good and professional products. So in the last day we were actually seriously selling. We've now got 10% of our goal.

*learned to take panorama pictures....*

Yesterday we went to an actual serious christmas markets in Germany. That was very different from what we'd seen in Holland. There were a lot of Christmas stalls, an actual glass blower, crafting christmas ornaments, glühwein drinking people all over the city, people enjoying themselves, little stalls selling roast chestnuts, waffles, curry saucages, wooden figures, lights.... It was christmassy. The only thing we were seriously missing was Father Christmas. There was one in Holland, that definitely had the Christmas spirit and brought a happy and positive note to the market. Just a shame I forgot to take a picture of him. I was planning to, but forgot.

After our two weeks of holiday in which we're not going to do anything for this project, well, other than doing a sports medical test, we are going to sit down and think of some more ways of raising money.

For now to everyone out there: 

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!!!!!