Lava Gina

A week or so ago I got an email from my friend in Jersey City Christine inviting me to a birthday party for our friend Catalina. The email said something to the effect of we're going to go to dinner for sushi at such and such place and then head over for drinks at Lava Gina. Then she included the websites. Looking at the web link, I realized that www.lavagina.com really looked like La Vagina. Hmmm. This prompted a reply from me to the distribution list saying only "La Vagina"? and then several others put in their cracks at the name. Despite the name, the evening was still planned.

There were 16 of us and we first headed over to Avenue A sushi in the village for a very long dinner. I had invited Fernando* and his friends - Vince* and Rickybobby* as well as two of my friends from work - Jessica and Barbara. Dinner was pretty good, but we didn't order enough food. By the time we got our food it was too late to really order anything else so I had to go get a slice of pizza afterwards. The most important fact about dinner: a) Catalina seemed to enjoy it and looked beautiful for her birthday b) we learned about jelly made out of jameson whiskey from Sarah (a pastry chef and acquaintance) and came up with an idea to inject it into donuts to make Jameson Jelly Donuts. Now THAT"s a DONUT!!!

Later, we made our way over to Lava Gina. Standing outside, the triangles should have been a give-away but we went in and then realized after about 2 minutes that it was a lesbian bar. Not that a lesbian bar is a bad thing, but it just wasn't our dealy-o for the night. Not sure how we EVER didn't come up with the idea that it just might possibly be a lesbian bar based on the name. Looking back, it seems REALLY obvious.

So, we went across the street to the Porch and had a few drinks. It got late and it was time to go. In the cab on the way home, a bachelorette party tiara fell onto me out of nowhere and I put it on and officially declared myself Princess Rebecca. I wore it the rest of the evening. No buzz involved in that decision. And that's all she wrote.

*Names changed not necessarily to protect identity - but instead to be funny.