Ok, this isn't exactly financial.  Just warning you upfront, so you can skip it if you want.

For anyone else still reading, remember I blogged earlier about how I had buddies that wanted to take road trips, but none of that ever really panned out?  Yeah, real life happens, and I get that they're busy, so it's not like I am holding them to the fire over this or anything.

Well much to the surprise of even yours truly, one of them actually happened yesterday! This buddy and I have always wanted to go try Jollibee at Virigina beach, and off we actually went yesterday!

Now, before I continue, I just want to say that this is very much a bucket list item.  Yes.  A bucket list item, as in, we have never been to Jollibee.  Actually, we've never even been to virginia beach in our lifetime until now!  However, all over the internet, people were raving about how good Jollibee is, and being a bunch of self-professed foodies that we are, we were like you know we really have to try this out some day, just once, before we croak.

I think perhaps the passing of our co-workers might have finally lit the fire under the butt of this buddy to finally say yeah let's at least check off Jollibee (as it was arguably the easiest item on our bucket list).

So anyways, off we finally went and I ended up with this unhealthy amount of food:

That's a bucket of chicken, adobo rice, gravy, jolly spaghetti, and hiding behind the bucket is a tray of palabok.

The fried chicken is basically the best I have ever had out of any fast food restaurant.  The skin was light and crispy without being hard and hurting my mouth, and the meat was so juicy and tender.

The adobo rice was similar to Bojangle's dirty rice, but a bit drier and milder, so I didn't personally care for it.

The jolly spaghetti is like eating Chef Boyardee's, except the sauce was sweeter?  It's odd, I don't care for it myself, but I can see why it's a popular item, especially for kids.

Now the palabok.  That was truly a surprise.  Here's a separate picture of it to get a good look:

Basically, it's a clear noodle dish, but covered in this meaty, savory sauce I can't describe, but was really tasty and I couldn't stop eating it.  I COULD NOT STOP EATING IT.

But yeah, this bucket list item has been checked. It's a shame there is not a Jollibee near me, or I would definitely get food from there again.

Oh, and by the time we got there, it was already dark, so we decided there was no point in actually visiting the actual beach.  So we just ate and went back home.  Overall, I had nice time.  Not bad for a one day road trip.