Ambient music is playing. People are watching. Row boats with spectators are circling in the canal as if in Venice. A dude dressed in all white is standing on the front of one of the row boats handing out carnations to the people on the canal's edge.
See that little guy down there, swinging flaming torches? Wicked! We only had the iPhone, else we'd have better pictures to share.
We also concurred though, what a quirky city! Probably (total guess) 8,000-10,000 people were out and about. We met some of Sue's colleagues and significant others and housemates.
This was the first time we had been downtown at night. We go down there to work, but we hadn't seen that there appears to be a club scene. The bars do fill up. Folks do party.
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Bars fill up and folks party in NE?
Brandini! Right. Shouldn't be surprising. I'll clarify...
I work a few blocks away from those bars and clubs. In the Jewelry District. Near the Rhode Island Children's Museum and the city's animal shelter.
I walked to the Post Office today just before lunchtime. I was the only person at the Post Office.
I walked six or seven blocks each way to get there. Round trip, I crossed paths with maybe eight people. Two of those people were aggressively arguing on the sidewalk -- a man and a woman. The man hollered various forms of, "You never called her your mother until you needed money!"
It is the summer in a college town, and granted, it was super hot, but not a single customer in the Post Office on a Monday at lunchtime?!
It was just amazing I guess this weekend to see lots of people out and about.
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