Yangon, (Rangoon) Myanmar (Burma) day three

Yangon, (Rangoon) Myanmar (Burma) day three. We left port at about 1:30 PM. At about noon the tour company and/or the government had all the buses, we had used, lined up. There were streamers and ribbons everywhere and people wearing colorful clothing were also lined up. There was live music and canned music playing. The Captain came down once again and shook hands with what I suppose were the dignitaries. The ship was supposed to leave at 1:00 PM but these folks had to come aboard once again to eat our donuts, I’m sure. So the people stood out in the hot sun and the music played on.

Finally, when we did leave, this pilot had to go about 3 knots all the way down the river for about 4 hours. He too wanted more donuts. Once out to the ocean, or actually the Bay of Bengal, the water was still the color of fresh doo doo and occasionally there would be large chunks of floating brown stuff that looked like chunks of mud or doo doo. I’m guessing it must have been some kind of peat that would float for awhile until it got water logged.

As we left our suite for dinner we found another invitation left on our door. This time it was from the Captain. He invited us to leave the ship as we had been eating far more then our share and they could no longer afford us. No it wasn’t. I just wanted to see if you were paying attention. It was really an invitation to have dinner with him the following evening. We had to leave a note saying we were sorry but important folks like us need more time to weigh all the options for a given evening and besides we usually do not eat with people of the lower classes. That’s not true either. We did say we could not attend due to a previous engagement with Virtuoso. They are having a private dinner tomorrow and there would be far more people to talk to. Actually I was afraid we might all have to eat what the captain eats, had we dined with him. He eats Dag food. Ha, ha. Funny, funny. Captain’s name is Dag, if you did not remember.

Funny Funny Sherm Out

(Posted on behalf of Sherman Rootberg)