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Ina Stöcker:
Hello :-)
Jutta, Ela and Heike authorized me to write our reviews and so I
try to do it again. Warning... it will be long...
For me it was the first time that I would do a journey without my
husband or my family for more than 15 years and so I was very
excited long before our journey started! Heike - our perfect driver
- had the longest way, she came from her hometown in the north of
Germany (she crossed whole Germany the last days), accompanied by
her twins Ruben and Lukas. They arrived at my home (in the middle
of Germany ;-) !) in the evening of thursday and we could hardly
wait to start our tour! It was nearly midnight when we went to bed,
but our night was short, half of the night it was raining very hard
and long time we could not sleep because of a thunderstorm. Early
in the morning we were very tired but thinking about the evening
took back the smiling in our faces. After breakfeast we drove about
70 km to meet with Jutta and then our big adventure started!
There were still about 500 km to drive and it was very hot, but we all
were in a good mood and laughed a lot, we had a lot of breaks and
made the owner of the petrol stations rich with buying something to
drink and ice... So it took nearly 9 hours until we arrived at
Altusried. Fortunately my handy had the game "Monopoly" and a good
accu so that the long time was not so boring for "Lu-Ru" (most of
time I still do not know who is who and with Lu-Ru I´m right ;-)...).
But as I wrote - we all had so much fun and I suppose sometimes the
boys were a little bit excited about us "crazy mums". We arrived in
our private hotel at about 6 p.m. and took all a shower to get
"human" again - the sun was shining the whole day we were driving
and most of time it was about 35 C in the car. Then we drove to a
supermarket buying something to eat and drink for the night after
the concert and after that it was time to drive to the
"Freilichtbühne" in Altusried where we wandted to have something to
eat and to drink. There we met some listmembers as Claudia, Chris,
Dani and we could hardly believe - we were there!!!
The weather was fine, the venue was fine and we were waiting for a big party
- wow, what a evening! Our seats were on different places - we all booked
categorie 2 (which was right in front of the stage) but at different
times. But - what a surprise - there were 6 or 7 free places in the
first row and we could sat down there all together! Then the show
started and it was great to see - and hear! - Chris again!
He seemed to be very relaxed and was in a very good moode, joked and
talked a lot! I had constructed a car of pasteboard for giving it
to him. It was a little gag about "our tour". Some of you have seen
"Rufus" sitting at the stage at the concerts. Rufus is a big toy-dog.
Ela and Jutta bought him before the Düsseldorf concert and he wears
a t-shirt with "Read my name" and our names. Rufus should be a
present for Chris in Düsseldorf but he gave him back and said that
we should give him again on another time. The next show (I was not
there - I think it was Dortmund or Bielefeld) Rufus sat on stage
but now Ela, Jutta and Heike decided it was not the right time and
took Rufus home again. Since then Rufus visited many shows - always
sitting at the side of the stage and most of time getting a grin
from Chris. At the car that I made was outside in the front a photo
from Rufus and written "Rufus travel service". Inside of the car I
made pasteboard-figures from Jutta, Ela, Heike, Jutta, Rufus and me
and sat us into the car. The car stood on a road which was called
"The road to freedom". At the end of the road was a picture from
Chris in concert playing the piano. At the beginning of the road
stood a german "town-sign-post" on which were our hometowns written
and then crossed out (as it looks when you leave a town) and "It´s
such a long way home...". At the end of the road next to the concert
photo stood another sign.post with all the towns written on, in
which we visited a concert. In the beginning of the show, when
Chris had finished singing "The road to freedom", one Ru-Lu ;-) and
I went to the stage and gave it to Chris. He was a little bit
excited - a present in the beginning of the show is a bit unsual
but "The road to freedom" was the best moment for it and he smiled
while having a look at the car etc.
The concert was great - his voice so clear and the audience clapped
hands and sang from the first moment everywhere in the venue! I missed
"Songbird" and "Rose of England" but I was happy to hear "In a country
churchyard" which I like very much. While his Britney-part everyone
stood up, some people jumping over chairs to see him near or take photos,
all were dancing, clapping hands, singing - it was a great atmosphere! The
big surprise was, that Chris introduced his son Hubie to the
audience, joking, that everybody in his family is taller than he...
He said that Hubie is a very good guitar-player and the audience
gave many applause - especially as Hubie and Chris started playing
"Blackbird" together, Chris told us that it was the first time that
Hubie was on stage. It was so great to see them together on stage!
There was so much love between them and Hubie played the guitar very
good! Something very different from the other shows and I can only
say - it was great! Hubie got much applause after finishing the song!
Time went by so past and after "Lady in red" the big run to stage
began! We all enjoyed to dance and sing - Ruben and Lukas were
sitting on the side of the stage (after some discussions with the
security), the stage was very high and they could not look at it
while standing in front of it - and there were so much people
dancing! They enjoyed their place very much and we all had fun with
"Read my name" (yeah!!!!!!), "Don´t pay the ferryman", "Living in
the world", "Nothing ever happens round here" and "High on emotion"
and so fast it was time for "Snows of New York". But the audience
was very high on emotion... and so we all shouted for giving us
more. Fortunately Chris came back on stage and sang his party songs
like "Hard days night", "Obladi oblada", "Pretty woman" etc. and at
the end of the show "Hey jude" while saying good bye. It was a great
show - for me the best of this tour! We all were tired and it was
still hot, but also we were full of energy from this fantastic show
and it was good to know that there would be another show in
Emmendingen the next day!
Back in the hotel the boys went to bed, falling asleep very soon -
it was a hard day for them. Heike, Jutta and I talked and laughed
until 3 o´clock - knowing that every driven km was worth to see
this show and we fall asleep with our big CdeB-grin in our faces...!
Our night was short again - but never mind - we knew that we would
meet with Ela and her daughter Jacqueline in Emmendingen to see another
great show. And this review will follow tomorrow! :-) Sleep well all -
as I will do now!
Ina
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