10-31-2013 Yelp Halloween Party

We went to the Yelp Halloween party, but evidently took no pictures.  The event was really fun and there were lotsa sample of things.  The venue was an old church and with all of the people it got prettty hot in there.

10-30-2013 Movember Kickoff Sun King Brewery

Sun King helped kick off the microbrewery revolution in Indianapolis and they have always been good citizens and great members of the community.  They hosted the Movember (mens health awareness month) Indianapolis Kickoff.  All proceeds went towards Mens Health Awareness.

I ate at a food cart called the flavor truck.  The review is here.

They have a seasonal beer that is called fistful of hops and I really loved it!  The band was a lot of fun.

The band's original songs were the best

10-28-2013 Pitchfeast at the Speak Easy

There was an event in Indianapolis called Pitchfeast by Dreamopolis.  It occurs every month and the way it works is that you pay 5 bucks to get in and you get a wooden token and you get beer and food.  Companies sponsor the meal and then all of the entry fee gets awarded to the winner of the pitch portion of the event.

People get up there and pitch an idea that will help the community.  On this day we couldn't have had more different pitches.  The first pitch was from a company called Boosterville.  They had a way that you could pay for your purchases with an app.  Then 1 % of your purchase would go to a charity of your choice.  The business would save 1% on the transaction fees.  Boosterville had their ducks in a row and have a developed app.  They had worked on this for 2 years.

The Speak Easy in SoBro

It was a costumed event and we dressed up as the Amish Mafia

The second pitch was from a lady named Dorothy who wanted to develop a brand for herself called Homegrown Hillbilly and she wanted to be motivational speaker and wanted to help motivate people in underserved areas.  She seemed to have a good heart and she brought her whole family with her and they were all very nice.  I think that people felt like Boosterville was already a funded enterprise that was well developed.   Everybody wanted to help Dorothy get started and for this reason she won and got $295 to get her started.

We didn't realize at first that the chili provided was vegetarian, and Cara didn't eat it.  So, after this meeting we went to Broad Ripple and ate at Noodles and Company and that review is here.

10-26 to 10-27-2013 Pre-Halloween Weekend Festivities

Saturday afternoon we went over to the Historic Irvington Halloween Festival.  There were about 40 booths, plus the Indie Handicraft tent, food vendors and food trucks, lots of people in costume (including us), kids activities galore, and live music.  There were signs for a beer garden, and some people described where the booth was, but we never found it.

Washington and Audobon Streets are blocked off for this event.

It was on the chilly side, but partly sunny, and it brought out the crowds.

This might have been the best costume we saw at the festival - it's certainly the cutest!

We kept our costumes on, and later that night we went downtown to the Nightmare on Meridian Street Bar Crawl.  We didn't win any contests, but we did have several people tell us we had the best costumes of the night.  A bar crawl is definitely not our usual thing, but we had a ton of fun and ended up taking a cab home.  So, Sunday we decided to dust off our tandem bike and put it to use.  Google picked a pleasant route for us, taking us along Pleasant Run, through Fountain Square, and on the Cultural Trail.  It was nice - we saw the city from a new perspective, got a little exercise, and enjoyed lunch at Buca di Beppo.  (Read our review of lunch here.)

The Cultural Trail nicely crosses over I-65/I-70 to connect Fountain Square with downtown.

Cara's view on the tandem bike

It was nice to see a family also enjoying a bike ride on this beautiful day.

Love this open public area on Georgia Street that Indy got, thanks to hosting the Superbowl!

The monument looked beautiful against the bright blue sky.

10-17-2013 Indiana Wildlife Federation Member Appreciation Celebration

Just a couple of months ago the Indiana Wildlife Federation (IWF) moved their offices from Zionsville to a great location in downtown Indy.  Meals on Wheels now owns the building at 708 E. Michigan St. that used to be a Senior Center.  The IWF rents a nice office space on the first floor, and they have access to some nice common areas that they can use for events.  It made for a fabulous place to enjoy the annual Member Appreciation Celebration.

a glimpse into Indiana Wildlife Federation's new office space

One of the nice common areas available to renters in the Meals on Wheels building

Another view of the downstairs common area

Many thanks to these wonderful musicians for the great live music at the party

Kids enjoyed building bird houses

The upstairs banquet room with kitchenette

The upstairs banquet room

The upstairs banquet room

10-17-2013 Indiana City Brewing Company

There was a meetup of the Indianapolis Vegetarian Society that was held at the Indiana City Brewing Company.  The ICBC is on the corner of Shelby and Southeastern on the SE side of Indy downtown....just east of I-70 I-65.

They have a table for cards and I stuck out some for
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10-16-2013 - Trivia at The Tin Roof

We had information from a team trivia website that there was trivia at The Tin Roof in downtown Indianapolis.  We had a Restaurant.com gift certificate for the place so we decided to give it a try.

We reviewed the meal and restaurant here.  

The trivia was a bust, but they did have an open mic night which was very cool.  The open mic starts at 10 with a prize of 100 bucks.  Jay Eliot performs 7 songs starting at about 8:30.  He was really good actually.  I thought he started slow and then really warmed up fast.

I shot a video of one of his songs, but it wont load right on this blog.