A taste of the tropics

Today we ventured out to the Bronx to check out the New York Botanical Garden's Caribbean plant exhibit.  Surrounded by snow and ice, spending an afternoon in a simulated tropical environment was sounding pretty good.  We took Brandon's SLR camera along to try and pretend to be professional photographers :)

              

 

For dinner, we went to Washington Heights to check out a Venezuelan place, Cachapas y Mas, that I have been wanting to try.  We tried a cachapa (a sandwich with two pieces of arepa-like cornbread instead of regular bread), a patacon (a sandwich with tostones instead of bread) and a tacucho (similar to a burrito).  Pictured below are the cachapa (top left), the patacon (bottom) and tacucho (top right).