Beyonce

Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:01:10

Not long ago Elma, Emina, Jasko i ja were in Zagreb. Images from that trip you may see here. What follows is Elma's writing that she calls Beyonce...

The story begins in January...or maybe even earlier...before we got married. In October we wanted to go to Alicia Keys' concert, in Zagreb, not so much because we are her fans, it was more because that would be my first time to go on concert of a world famous star. The more significant thing was that concert was on 10th of October and no.10 is the number that kind of marked our relationship (Sano is born on 10th of July, I on 10th of November, we started going out on 10th of May, we got married on 10th of January and so on…) But because of the circumstances, we couldn't go :(...
And that is how we got to Beyonce, she was the next star that was coming to Zagreb. Somehow at time when we were planning our wedding, the commercial started to go on TV that the Beyonce is coming to Zagreb on 26th of April. The commercial noted that she is starting her world tour, so I mentioned to Sano that I would like to go (cause the idea about A. Keys failed). As we were planning the wedding day (and that was the most important thing at the time!) we didn't give much thought about possibility to go to the concert. One night as I was watching TV, after the wedding and when I already moved to the Sarajevo, the commercial popped up and my eyes blazed. Seeing that, Ersan (that's my hubby:)) sat in a front od computer and reserved two tickets for us. By the way, i have to say that Ersan does not listen this kind of music and it is not interesting to him at all, but he was ready to take a sacrifice, for me his wifey :). The best scene happened few days after, when we were coming back one afternoon from store. We checked mail box and there were a 2 or 3 mail envelopes. Sano checked them out and gave one to me while saying: 'This one is for you' . I was thinking to myself, what can be for me, I just moved to Sarajevo, nobody even knows my address…who will send something to me by mail?! Thinking that way I opened the envelope and the text on paper is starting like this: 'Dear, we are providing you next tickets 89152 BEYONCE – I AM... world tour 26.04.2009 21:00 HRV-10000-Arena Zagreb“. Aaaaaaaaaaa!!! You can not imagine mine uplift! Jumping, smile from ear to ear, hugging and kissing the best husband ever followed! I love him! (but not only for the tickets!). And the first step was made... Day after day, and the preparing week came. Unfortunately, we lost an option to go with our car, so we needed to find another option. We came with idea to go by train! I never traveled by train and Sano didn't since childhood so, we thought, that too can be a part of this little adventure... However that failed too so we decided to go by bus. As we were talking about how and what are we going to do, Sano came up with a suggestion. Not to long ago, our made of honor (Emina) and her husband (Jasko) visited us, and Sano and Jasko had conversation about concert. Sano said that he was not too exited about listening Beyonce for 3 hours and on that remark Jasko asked why not let two of the girls to go concert while they can fool around. So Sano and I came up with idea to offer them mutual trip, girls to be at the concert and boys walk around i wait for us (with that Sano will be saved and Emina and I will be enjoying the concert together). The suggestion was made and accepted! We made a deal to come to Tuzla on Sunday (on day of concert), then to get together with Jasko and Emina, and finally with their car we'll set out to Zagreb! Finally that day came...
In the morning, we got up, drank some coffee, went to quick shopping (water, food for trip) and left for Tuzla. In Tuzla we visited my family and waited until 14:00, the go time. And really, at 14:00h (maybe a few min. later) the four of us started adventure called Beyonce. The trip went great! With nice weather and loads of fun how else can you call it than great! After we crossed to Croatia we had two missions: to be by Arena without getting lost and find out what the hell is that yellow grass thing all over Croatia! We followed signs on highway and got to the Arena safely and right on time. However, we did not find out anything about yellow thing! Later we got information that that was oil seed rape, but we were not 100% sure, so if someone knows, inform us too.
In front of the Arena was already crowdy, and parking was full of cars, even buses. We managed to get in the parking and change clothes (because I wanted to wear a t-shirt like a real teen-fan, which I got from Sano's mom. Although t-shirt didn't have Beyonce's picture on it, at least it was from Jay-Z and Beyonce clothing line. Yeeeeeah). Husbands walked us to the entrance and magic began (well not right away because we had to wait 1,5-2 hours for show to start). Arena is full, excitement was in the air, tension, 'when is she coming out!', and....
Lights are out, tact of 'Crazy in love' begins, screams, flashlights of camera from everywhere, and gorgeous woman came to the stage loud with her vocal abilities that fascinated everyone present ...show started! It is too little to say that concert was spectacular! Effects, dancing numbers, hit by hit.....phenomenal! You can easily see that the world star is on the stage. The highlight of the evening for me was when she appeared in the middle of the hall, only 4-5 meters from were Emina and I were standing. She was so close, ah.... Song by song, end was there. The two of us still thrilled and under impressions, singing and all, went out to meet with our husbands.
Oh our husbands....that is whole another story. Remember when I told you that they will walk around while we are at the concert?! They were, they did exactly that! They were literally walking around the Arena :(. For one because the city was far away, and second because of more spending (because this was not a cheap sport), they were convicted to walk and sit in the park, which caused some suspicious looks of people. Half an hour of wriggle and going thru the parking place, we got to the highway and on a way to the Tuzla....

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