Downtown Tampa
Yep, that's it. Really not much to see or do there. There was an outdoor mall
on a trolley stop, so we checked that out. That had a place similar to Jillian's
(or Dave and Buster's) but it was dead in the middle of the day. We found a fun
place to eat though, Big Mouth. So of course we got t-shirts. Hamburger diner,
interesting though. So we headed back and stopped at the real mall (I like to shop).
Of course the mall was just a mall and we didn't find much interesting. Unless you count an ice rink inside a mall interesting. It definitely kept a chill on the place. I don't know the details (was it free, were there classes, etc), but like everywhere else, there were a lot of old people enjoying it. They were pretty good skaters too. Of course they had to be, otherwise what do you think happens to their brittle, old bones when they fall?
Did I mention the traffic sucked? At least this time there was a better reason than stupid DOT engineers. I give you, industrial truck on fire in middle of highway. Yep, we got there after it happened, but we watched it burn. Interesting I must say. Hopefully no one was hurt of course. This blocked traffic for a bit, but eventually they let us use on lane to pass it.
Now back to hotel, change and hit the pool. Next to the pool is a bar. Is this a good idea? And now we find our first vacationing drunk idiots. Apparently these two middle-aged weirdos are living out a movie. Specifically, "The Marrying Man". Why not Godzilla? Anyway, they actually referred to their life with respect to that movie,
"Yeah, we were married. Then divorced. Now we're married again. It's like that movie The Marrying Man, did you see that?"
Thankfully they were talking to someone else, but we couldn't help but overhear.
So now we change again, and off to dinner. This was fun because we got to ride the Jolly Trolley. Sadly, it really wasn't that jolly, but it sure beats walking. We got off at the roundabout (I still hate that thing) and watched a dog show. No, not Best in Show (damn funny by the way), but some street performer with a litter of Jack Russell's. It wouldn't have perhaps been more interesting if it were small guys named Jack Russell and not the dogs. He didn't really have any good tricks, but the kids enjoyed it, so there you are.
Of course, there was a public playground here and roughly 217 kids tramping around. Vendors everywhere of course and it was great weather. So we walked over to a seafood place and stuffed ourselves silly.
Then back to the hotel to pass out. But first, let's not forget there's still basketball on. Hell yeah. Even better, there were plenty of upsets this year. Unfortunately one of those upset was UC. Idiots.