Rock im Park – WOOHOO

I’m at a Rock Concert!! WOOHOO, Rock Concert – wooohoo watching Marilyn Manson!!” Is the drunk girl phone call my dear friend Michele received at 2330 on Saturday night.  But I’m starting smack in the middle of our weekend adventure…

Leah and Ryan had gone up on Thursday and staked claim on a good location outside the main entrance.  It was still a walk but after seeing the tent city and the hillside tent sites that people had managed to claim closer, I was quite content to walk a little further for our flat spot and tents of Americans that they had gotten for us.  Not sure how to explain the environment surrounding the tents.  I mean the first word is disgusting.  Guys peeing pretty much wherever they want, toi toi (portable toilets) overflowing, the smell of Piss and Garbage just getting stronger as the day warmed up.  Kind of this wild abondon feeling of no rules that you could drop all of your feelings of society rules and go wild.  Dress as you want, run with wild crazy screams and jump to the music.  Man I’m getting old cause I’m just not about running like Tarzan through the forrest (oh … except in Berlin)   I think Tarzan lived cleaner.  But it wasn’t about the tent cities, its about the music.

Rock im Park is an annual concert venue where 3 stages run for three days of awesome rock music.  I’m not sure how long its been running, but its location has history back to the Nazi regime -

Torchlit Nazi Party mass rallies held in the 1930s in the park were supposed to be only the beginning, with the stone laid in 1937 for a stadium that was intended to seat 400,000 fanatical Nazis. A pit was dug for the foundations, but the stadium was never built.

And here it is 2009 and we come over the steps to view a massive stage throbbing out rock music.  I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the vision, but its still an awesome site.  We got there on Saturday in time to get to the Suzuki stage and the line up was pretty awesome:  (going from the last band we saw to the first we came in on)

21:50-23:05     Marilyn Manson
20:20-21:10     Killswitch Engage
19:10-19:55     Staind
18:05-18:45     Papa Roach
17:00-17:40     Enter Shikari
15:55-16:35     Shinedown
15:00-15:35     Dragonforce

The evening grew a bit hazy for me as the Jack Daniels found its way to my brain.  Hence the drunk girl phone call which ate all the Euro’s from my Handy as I called the USA.  Fletch is still giving me crap about that.

We woke the next morning to a sunny sky, hoping it would stay we ventured into town to get more cash and check to see what the train schedule for return would be.  Coming back to the stadium in time to catch the band I had to see that day: Flogging MOLLY.  Awesome.

14:20-15:00     Trivium
15:20-16:05      Flogging Molly

As we were enjoying the sounds of rocking Irish music, the clouds rolled in and the dumping of the buckets of rain began.  As we hustled back to the camp site to grab our pack, I could feel the water make its way down my back and my clothes became a wet mass of fabric sticking to my body, my shoes squished water and I looked at my husband to tell him, I’m DONE.  It was an awesome weekend, the music was rocking.  If your a fan of rock, highly recommend.  Though to tell you this girl is thinking next year?  Hotel room

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