Last night, the students of SJI went out to eat together because Mr. Lee, Mr. Carter, Mr. Squires and Mr. Encina went out to dinner with one of the guest speakers of the class. We end up finding a spot not too far from the Hilton Hotel named Midtown Sundries.
The restaurant was okay. None of the tables were taken, but the bar was pretty active, with about five guys sitting down watching the Rays Vs. Jays game. The dinner was a great bonding experience for SJI, but we end up going $20 over our limit because an unidentified member calculated the bill wrong.
As we finished dinner and headed back to the hotel, we couldn't help but notice how quiet the streets of St. Pete were. Granted it was ten o'clock and it was a Tuesday, but there was ABSOLUTELY no sign of life. The St. Petersburg streets depicted a scene from I am Legend.
The SJI members had all heard rumors that St. Pete was an 'old people's town,' but they thought the rumors were just silly exaggerations. The students quickly found out otherwise.
"It's a ghost town," Shemar Woods said.
One of the students felt the streets were as quiet as a classroom during finals week.
"We were all still standing awquardly as if we should get out our pens and pads and prepare for a sports check," said Amelia Rayno as she exited the restaurant.
The only sign of life was the sighting of a tow truck racing through the streets at speeds that Tyreke Evans might be seen driving.
The empty streets sparked conversation on how dead the night life of St. Pete must be.
"There is none," said Didier Morais as he noticed the lack of night life. "The streets were barren."
Maybe we will go to Tampa Bay one night so we can actually see what people look like. Stay tuned to see if we ever see people, other than us, at night.
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