Edit from Vania: I open a new topic, because I believe there will be many pics, reports and videos (I hope so) and it's better that we put them in this special topic Yesterday I was at the arena in Mannheim early
, around 11.00 o´clock, because I did not want to miss Albena and Maxim and because I did not know when the bus with the skaters arrives...
So, I was there much too early and had to wait at this special place many hours
...
The first sign that the bus would arrive soon was the appearance of not so nice Russian security
, who, after the bus arrived after 16.00 o´clock, blocked the bus of the skaters
and did not let us pass
! I could only wave
to Albena
, and she waved back
...
Then the bus disappeared and the security too
. Only one of them remained there. Besides me and one other person every fan disappeared. Maybe they all thought that nobody would come out again...
But we waited, because we knew from the years before what might happen...
And exactly
... Five minutes later some of the skaters came out again
.
Maxim was with them. I went to him
; security again tried to stop me
, but Maxim reacted very nice
and so I could pass this time
...
I gave him my present, gave him a biiiiig hug
, and
told him good wishes from the posters of our heavenforum and from Bulgarian armleg forum . Maxi thanked . After some few words he went back into the arena.
Some minutes later Albie came out
. This time the security officer gave up
, because this time Albie passed him
and came to us and the others who meanwhile has noticed that some skaters were outside. Very few words, more were not possible at this moment. She as Maxi before signed their book for me, talked a little bit with everybody (mostly in Russian that I could not understand, because most of the visitors of this show were of Russian origin), and then left too.
The show began with some minutes delay.
In the first part Albena and Maxim danced "Ostanus"
. It was wonderful to watch
, and I have the impression that the song "Ostanus" fits to the dance much better than "You´re beautiful". Albena was in a white dress, and Maxim completely in black. Albie and Maxi, they both were in good condition
, and they received a lot of applause
; included a lot of animals/pets that were thrown on the ice!
In the second part they danced "Cry me a river"
in the well known black and white clothes. Again great to watch
, with a lot of "AHHHH!"
and "OHHHH"
of the spectators. Especially Maxim received a lot of applause for his solo!
! Again they received a lot of applause after the dance,
and again a lot of animals/pets were thrown on the ice!
I only hope Albena and Maxim have a second suitcase with them for transporting all the things that were thrown on the ice for them
!!!
During the dances of the other pairs Albena and Maxim very often were standing inside the skaters entrance that let to the ice, and watched the dances. And many times Albena besides the ice began to "dance" too! Was nice to watch
...
In principle that´s all. Only one thing that at the very end after the spotlights went on again and when I was just ready with packing my things inside my rucksack and just wanted to leave my seat, I suddenly heard someone calling my name in front of me... I looked ... and it was Albena
, standing in front of me
, who wanted to tell me something private that she could not tell me in all the mess outside the arena before the show...
... WOW! So nice
! Thank you, dear Albena
!!!!
So, that´s it from Mannheim. I hope to see Albena
and Maxim
again tomorrow in Düsseldorf, maybe for a bit longer than in Mannheim
, as everything goes as it should...
Dear Albena
! Dear Maxim
! Thank you
for yesterday! And hope to see you tomorrow
!
I made pictures, but I don´t know if they are ok, because I use film and not digital. If some of them are ok, I´ll post them during the coming week, I promise!