What a weekend

So I left on thursday night with Kiro. We got to Sofia around 8:30 and went to his dad's house to eat dinner. After some really good chinese food, we left and got on our train at 10:30 to Russe. We arrived in Russe around 6:30 and found out that the next train to Bucharest left at 1:35pm, so we went to the bus station. After looking around for awhile, we found out that the bus at 8am was already full, so we walked into town. An interesting fact about Russe, it is the first place in the world where a McDonald's has gone bankrupt. We came back around 9 for the next bus. It was a romanian company not affiliated w/ the bus station, so when it didn't arrive for awhile, we had no way of knowing whether it was coming or not. Finally, at 10:20, it decided to arrive. After packing into a minibus with a bunch old men and women, we were off. When we got to one side of the border, we had to get out of the bus and go through immigration one by one. We then crossed the bridge and had to do it again on the other side of the Danube for customs. When we were finally in romania, we found out that the old ladies we were with were "smugglers." They had brought enormous bags full of stuff to bring over the border. After we arrived in the town of Gorgiu (spelling), we had to get out and Kiro got on a different minibus going to Bucharest. As soon we started driving, all Kiro and I were doing was praying to get off the bus. This driver was insane, besides the fact that we had to listen to Chalga music all the way there. When we were finally in Bucharest, we just wanted out and told them we needed the closest hotel. Then we began walking around in the direction of the train station, eventually taking the metro. After buying our tickets for a train that left at 10:30am, we needed to find our concert tickets. We asked the taxi drivers and they said it would cost 50 Lei! That's 5 times more than we paid when we walked away from the train station and got an honest driver. He spoke german, so I got to practice mine. This guy was so nice that he told us how to get there by metro if we didn't want to take his cab. We made it to the ticket place, which was on the 6th floor of a bank building somewhere. There was a nice Morgan outside, so I took some pictures. We got our tickets and decided to get some coffee. We walked into a cafe, and I noticed that there was a door in the back to somewhere inside, so we checked it out. This landed us in probably the biggest mall in the city. I finally bought some things. After that we went to the concert hall, 3hrs early. We walked around and went to the bathroom, but had to leave because security was bugging us. We got some "dinner," bread, sausage, and beer.
We came back at 7:30 and saw that a small crowd had formed outside, so we stood for the next hour and half, waiting for the doors to open. When it did open, we made it to the front and did not move. It started with 4 warm-up DJ's, one hour each. The first 3 were good, and the last warmup DJ was DJ Vania, a romanian DJ. When Vania began playing, these 4 romanian guys came out of nowhere and began being incredibly rude by forcing their way in front of me and screaming Tiesto's name while other DJ's were playing. It was really hard to enjoy the music with them dancing on top of me. We were standing way in the front, right in front of the wall of subwoofers that provided the bass for the entire concert. We didn't really notice this until Vania turned up the bass as loud as it could go, and Kiro and I could not believe what we were feeling. EVERYTHING was shaking, my lungs vibrated when I took a deep breath, my feet were having a wonderful massage, my voice was even distorting it was so loud. Needless to say, I probably lost a year of hearing from those few hours. Then Tiesto came on, it was pure madness, imagine a goal in the last seconds of the world cup final to break the tie in injury time in the team's home country. That's about how loud everyone was. Tiesto began playing but didn't turn the bass down, so we moved too the very back. It was a completely different show. We were upset at first because he wasn't playing any of his good songs, then we realized that he was playing his old songs, he had just remixed them all. He played a few songs in their original form, and the crowd went crazy. I get goosebumps just thinking about when he played Adagio for Strings. Towards the end we moved back downstairs to the back of the crowd after resting in a seat in the back for an hour or so. The end was actually the best part because he played a lot of songs we knew, and we went crazy.
After it was over, we made our way back to the train station and had to wait for 4 hours for our train to leave. While in the Mcdonald's bathroom, I met someone from the concert and gave him my Skype ID, hopefully he will contact me. Kiro was out like a light, so I had to stay up to make sure that we didn't miss our train and that it wasn't delayed. Eventually we got on and I slept like a baby, which is incredible considering the train. We got to Sofia around 9:30 and the only thing we could do was take the train back to Blagoevgrad, so we did and finally got home around 12:30, right at the end of the Halloween Party here. We went out for a little bit, and came back to sleep. This morning I got well rested and Kiro slept until 2:30pm. Now that I am nice and full and have some things out of the way, I have to read something and write an outline for my presentation on Tuesday. I hope this was a sufficient account of the weekend for those who wanted to know what Tiesto was like. I took several video's of the concert, so if you would like them, please ask.