Caracas Arepa Bar<\/a> in the East Village. YUM YUM YUM! We got 2 appetizers and a sort of sampler arepa plate to share. We got yoyos (fried sweet plantain balls stuffed with white cheese) and Tostones Mochimeros (Fried Green Plantains topped with Mojito Mayo, a squeeze of lemon and white cheese) for the apps. And we opted for the La Popular combination platter: La de Pabell\u00c3\u00b3n (shredded beef, black beans, white salty cheese and sweet plantains), La Reina Pepiada (chunky chicken and avocado mix salad) and La Mulata (grilled white cheese with jalape\u00c3\u00b1os, saut\u00c3\u00a9ed red peppers, fried sweet plantains and black beans). The La Mulata was both of our favorite and it was fun to see Pete shout out a Whoo! when he got to the jalape\u00c3\u00b1os. The Reina Pepiada was our 2nd favorite and the de Pabell\u00c3\u00b3n was our least favorite (a bit too sweet). We were too stuffed to get any of their desserts and tried to think of somewhere for some ice cream when we ran into Alison and Josh going to the mixer. We decided to just start drinking and head to the bar.
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\nJosh, Nuno and Ali thinking up answers<\/p>\nPete stayed for a drink and left before trivia. Guess what? We won trivia night!! Wooohooo!! Now, I can’t take any credit whatsoever for the win. I might have known about 5 answers to the 60 questions asked. Unfortunately our team was named Monkey Karate Ninjas (I think Josh picked this one and I was already feeling the beer and did not argue! HA!) and there were some really entertaining team names. I think most credit goes to Jonathan. We won a $50 gift certificate to Common Ground and will probably use it for the November mixer. The mix I made I had Sienna in mind as I called it We Can Count!<\/em> Below is the tracklist.<\/p>\nStarts With One\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Shiny Toy Guns
\nTwo Times\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The Blakes
\n3 Strange Days\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 School of Fish
\nFour-Eyed Girl\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rhett Miller
\nThe First Five Times\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Stars
\nSix Barrel Shotgun\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
\nSeven Nation Army\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The White Stripes
\nCrazy Eights\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Tapes N Tapes
\nStep On My Old Size Nines\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Stereophonics
\n10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 M.I.A.
\nThe 11th Hour\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rancid
\nTwelve\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Jurassic 5
\nThirteen\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Big Star
\nFourteen\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a1Forward, Russia!
\n15 Steps\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Radiohead
\nSixteen, Maybe Less\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Calexico \/ Iron & Wine
\nSeventeen Dirty Magazines\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Modern Skirts
\n18 and Life\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Skid Row
\n19\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Hardcastle
\nTwenty On My Way\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Arthur Lee & Love<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of weeks ago was the September mixer. Since I really enjoyed Common Ground at the August mixer, I decided to go back there but this time for Wednesday night trivia! I was able to rally Peter to meet me for dinner beforehand (he doesn’t normally come to the mixers). The plantains The cheesy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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