First Sunday

Sunday the 24th we were able to have a lazy morning.  We are sharing a house that is rented with 3 other couples.  One brother made us some exotic food for breakfast.  Here is Matt with our first Myanmar meal:

Yes,pancakes.  Amazing ones.

Ok. While this may not be your admittedly "traditional Myanmar" cuisine, we sure enjoyed it!  Oh, by the way, the food here has been amazing overall.  So that whole diet idea we had...you know the we can eat whatever we want because we will lose weight in Myanmar thing?  Ya. Not so sure that is going to work out.

Anyways, our meeting is on Sunday at 1 pm.  So another couple that lives in our house showed us where to go to get the taxi to take and gave us some fare negotiation pointers.  The taxi drops you off at the end of a street. (Newly paved, thank goodness because we heard some interesting stories about the unpaved street.  One story involved a big fat rat.  Something about huge and unafraid.) So, we are happy about the paved! 

You walk down and go in this door:

Up these stairs:

View from the top.

Isn't the banister pretty?  And at the top on the left is this door:   

      

Inside you will find beautiful people from different countries who gather together to worship the same God using material that is the same no matter what country you may be in.  So amazing.  Someone here told us that the Kingdom Hall was used as the branch office many years before.  Here we are:

We clean up good!

After we walked back to the main street to catch another taxi.  Along the way we saw some picturesque things:

Back out on the main street we saw this while waiting for a taxi:

Notice the traditional clothing? Most people wear it here. So cool.  Our taxi ride back to our house was interesting, the taxi's are very well used if you catch my drift.  However it is possible to have nice conversations with your taxi driver if he speaks English.  Which this one did.  After we got home all the ladies of the house crowded in the kitchen to get dinner.  Since it was crowded it took awhile to get everything done.  Although a good time was had, and we wouldn't change it a bit!  We were tired by the time we were done and we fell asleep to a movie pretty early.   Monday was our first day of orientation here so more on that later!