Sofia is a place that never ceases to amaze me.  My mom and aunt are coming to visit next week.  They'll be here for two weeks so I decided that I have time to really show them what Sofia and Bulgaria for that matter is all about.

As a part of their education,  I wanted to take them to see a show of some sort.  I decided that I would have a rebellion on my hands if I took them to a play in Bulgarian and as excited as I am that <a href="http://sofiaecho.com/2009/04/30/713369_michael-bolton-to-perform-in-sofia" target="_blank">Michael Bolton is coming to Sofia</a> (yeah, that's right Michael Bolton and his "the very best of me" tour: Sofia June 30th), I figured that I'd take them to see the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra instead.

Okay maybe they would have just loved to see Michael Bolton (but I am betting against that) however you can see him anywhere (apparently) and its not every day you can see the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (well, unless you live in Bulgaria and even then it seems like they only play one a week or so).  So today I went to buy tickets to the June 18th performance--which I bought successfully, in Bulgarian.  The program will include Sibelius and Rachmaninoff.  I don't know them well but the space the orchestra plays in is a good one and I am looking forward to the concert nonetheless.

The wild thing is that when I went to day (only a week before the preformance) only half of the tickets had been sold.  The other crazy part was that when I went today, I was prepared to spend 20+ leva on each of the tickets.  And, the most expensive tickets were only 15 leva.  So guess what I splurged and bought those.  It's simply incredible to me how affordable the tickets were.

So that's that. We're going to the orchestra and we're going to have a great time doing it.