Driving in a van for nine hours really allows for the group to get to know each other. Yes, that was optimistic. Compound upon that a lack of air conditioning. We really got to know each other well. We, thankfully, survived the long drive in one van without killing each other. On the way we managed to make plenty of stops and I was granted the opportunity to sit in the dinky pseudo-chairs for about three hours— hooray. We were relieved when we finally made it to our third hotel. We were given two hours to ourselves and the freedom to explore the city a bit. The city center created a forum that allowed for a religious assembly of Catholics to pay their respects to the Pope, that happens to be in the Philippines too.
We walked around the city center without a destination in mind. We were, however, hoping to find something with food as we really hadn’t had more than snacks that we found at the intermittent gas station stops.
We had look at menus in one restaurant and pictures at another, nothing was catching our attention. That’s when we found Roy’s. It initially caught our attention because of it’s neon-orange glow, we looked inside and it was packed full of people. We gave it a shot! The poor girl working at the cash register didn’t realize what she was getting into when she greeted us. She handled our hungry indecision well. 
We walked upstairs to find another seating area completely packed with people. We managed to pull together enough chairs and tables to accommodate our group of five. In what felt like no time at all (lately we’ve been used to waiting for over an hour for our group of 15 to be served our meal) our food was ready!
Eight minutes; eight minutes is all it took for five Americans to abolish that meal. It was delicious! We were pleasantly surprised!
We, thanks to our expeditious eating habits, had more than enough time to stop at a convenience store and make our nightly meeting with the Professor.
