2005-10-28: Bulgarije: Amerikan halloweenparty

When we are getting up around noon, Dani is just coming home and Toni is getting awake also. We get a really nice breakfast and we are sitting really relaxed in the house of the two woman. A little later as we are supposed to we got into the bus and drive back to the garage to do some things we need to do. Later this day we will meet again, because there is a Halloween party to go to. We agreed to be here again around 10 o’clock PM and we are gone back “home” (!!?) When we take the bus, we take the wrong one and we are driving to the wrong side of the capitol of Bulgaria.

Around 2 or 3 o clock we arrive back to Assist Service and people are smiling to see us again. It is seemed to be that they are missing us in one way. People noticed that we where not there and they assumed things I won’t repeat, when I speak in “Drago” words. It is nice. It is almost like real coming home. The sun is shining and we start doing our thing.

Herbert is helping with the car and I am back to work after the computer making the country overview. I put in to many hours, I know for sure, but now it is ready, and ready means finished. The only thing I did not do and Herbert also was making the daily stories, so we are doing that now. Because of the notes I made and the back up of the pictures, I can make a proper good memory again. I am almost finished now and than we both can work relaxed on this travel at the stories.

After we finished everything we took of to Dani and Tony. We do not have any costume, who cares, we will see. We even forget the Vodka. The American party means everyone is going Dutch (!?) How typically can it be. Only the Dutch forget to bring something. At the party we realize that we should have taken the costumes from the car. We have the Daktari heads and the “Sjeik” outfit with us, which we have got from our friends Marcel and Axel. To stupid to forget, who cares, we are going to send away our bad ghosts and we are glad that we are almost ready.

The evening before with diner we discussed the suggestion to come to the Halloween party of a friend of Brian. The ladies where invited also and we liked the idea. We only had nothing to wear, but we would think of something. Halloween is a American tradition to scare away the ghosts, like carnival in Holland I guess. The evening I am writing this story, it will be party in Holland, because it is now the 11 date of the 11 month. This means party in Schalkhaar, mea by today or mea by tomorrow. This party has some of the same starting points and everyone is putting on this strange things. I hope it will be a success this year.

Since we have gone to Murphy’s in Sofia at the last day of September we have had only bad luck with the Landrover. At the Saturday before the last day of October we use this Halloween party to scare away our ghosts, I guess.

On the party we see Brian again, the American friend from Tony and a few friends. There are much people from Bulgaria and people from the American Embassy. It is a strange world and everyone is dressed up I one way or another. The evening continuous and I think Tony is not really comfortable. When she picked us up from the apartment by taxi, she already said, it was a typically party. I liked in one way, only it is bad connecting to some people. One room was a room for playing guitar and laying with your girlfriend. At the really end it even was so that there where some naked girls between the sheets of the bed. Later on the evening in the other room there where Bulgaria people who let me see the traditional music and the dance with it. Dani said I was a natural talent (!) and so I guess it will be then ….. I like the way people dance that way I some way. In 1998 in Sunny beach I also liked the women dancing that way, haha …. Arno, a friend of mine will remember it I guess.

At the end of the evening I met this good English talking woman. Later on the evening she was kissing this other girl. Funny to see all this happening. I looked at her a few times and I think she was flirting and not only with me. The man who organized this party was a typically wide shouldered man, with to many energy. I guess he asked me at one time what I was doing here in some difficult to understand English. After a while I saw it. He tried to making out with this English talking lady and I was in his way. Even when I was doing nothing……. ! After a while he put me on a beer and I think he thought about it and concluded there was nothing happening. Funny people, drinking beers, the American.

Later that night we drove of to the house of Tony and Dani. Dani was already gone earlier, because she had to work the next morning. After we came “home” again we drank something and a little while later Herbert and I went to Dani’s bed again.

Again a pleasant night and when we saw the films back, I know there was a little to much alcohol in the body’s. We where not talking the right way and forget some words in some sentences.