Day 2 Yangon – Myanmar

Semi-regretting the early night for the kids, the little buggers were up and at ‘em at 6:45am, which was bearable for me but, not surprisingly after his 3:00am bedtime, was totally unacceptable to Steve.  Mick has heaps of kids DVDs and Garfield the cat kept them entertained for an hour, thank you Garfield.

Then it was back to the Australian Club for tennis lessons and a swim.  Aargh, this travel thing is tough.

Tennis lessons at the Australia Club

And feeling lovely and refreshed we visited Shwedagon, a 99m gold Pagoda that dominates the skyline of Yangon.  It is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar and according to historical records it has been in existence in one form or another for 2600 years.

The weather was perfect, we had a lovely guide and took some gorgeous pictures. Many of the Myanmar visitors, however, seemed more interested in taking pictures of Miss M than the pagoda!!  In fact that happened just about everywhere we went, she was a huge hit and received many compliments, pats and cheek pinches.  She lapped it all up of course and very graciously posed for pictures (see examples below J).

The magnificent Miss M...

Emily graciously posing for pictures

And the magnificent Shwedagon