Arrived at our hotel in Bagan – Aureum Hotel and Resort 
Beautiful view of the pool from the lobby with a view of pagodas till your eyes can see!!! There used to be 7,000 pagodas in Bagan but now it’s down to 2,500 – still a lot 
There are five kinds of villas in Aureum Palace Bagan – Island Villa, Palm Tree villa, Lotus villa, Orchid Villa and Jasmine. Then there are deluxe rooms. So peaceful and beautiful
Lotus villa 
Love the “do not disturb” sign and “make up room” which is hand carved wood then you hang on the hand of the figure in your wood carved door
View from the Watch Tower of the resort. If you are staying at this resort, your entry to the watch tower is included and is a MUST SEE!
Night shots of the resort
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We flew via Bangkok to Yangon, arrived evening and stayed overnight in Yangon for an early flight to Bagan the next day. We arrived in our resort in Bagan, Aureum Palace and Hotel, and had lunch in Xanadu 
The food was good in the resort. I remember hotel food to be the best in Myanmar. They had a wide variety of food to choose from Asian to Continental. I recommend for you to just eat in the hotel unless you have a restaurant recommendation
Risotto 🙂 which my dad liked very much 
This is a very traditional breakfast dish and it was very good! 
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Aureum Palace Hotels & Resorts is the best escaping hideaway for relaxing at the most comfortable, ultimate, beautiful luxury hotels located in Bagan, Naypyitaw, Pyinoolwin,Ngapali and Ngwe Saung beach of Myanmar.
We had a very serious 🙂 meeting with Inés Delgado Prieto of Eastern Crossings Bespoke Travel Adventures for our new adventure! The last time we were talking to Inés it was for our India Trip and we loved it!!
Previous entry: Planing For Our Trip to India November 20, 2012
She organizes the trips of the Asia Society and many other families and groups. She warned us that we will be on the move this trip…. In other words, this is not going to be a vacation :-O 
Love travelling to new places!!
Some tips from Ines – Some additional ones from me 🙂
Cellphones: There is already Globe signal in Myanmar
Footwear: Bring slippers for Bagan Temple hopping and most places in Myanmar – all kinds 🙂 People there just wear slippers because they go in and out of temples and even sometimes in the office they remove their footwear. It is acceptable to just wear slippers
Wet wipes to wipe your feet since you will be going in and out of temples with no shoes. Our bus and tour guide provided this but in case bring your own
Eastern Crossings Bespoke Travel Adventures
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1745 M. Adriatico Street, Malate, Manila 1004, Philippines • www.easterncrossings.com
My beautiful Mom matching with her Christmas tree haha!!! Peacock themed Christmas tree and beside one of the stuffed pet peacocks on the piano
We had mass by Father Puzzo
Then a white Christmas dinner 🙂
Love all the Lolas! Missing Lola Charing and Lola Mameng
And love all the relatives
And a wonderful dinner by Gourmet Garage
Pretty Talitha hiding from the camera
Spark Discovery Centre Opening in January 5, 2016
Congratulations Yammy Banzhaf Montilla, Tina Banzhaf de Jesus, Thumby Server Veloso, Cara Banson, Yvette Dinglasan Crisostomo and Cristina Hagedorn Davila on the opening of Spark @sparkdiscoverycenter
There are 3 teacher owners out of the 6 owners. Thumby Server Veloso who owns a pre school in Alabang Toddlers Unlimited almost 20 years old and now last year opened a grade school. Cara who did one on one reading & math intervention for 7 years & in between in 2009 took her Masters in Human Development and Psychology in Harvard University. And Yvette Dinglasan Crisostomo who started for 2 yrs Xavier School Greenhills, 4 yrs in Stepping Stone Learning Center, 10 yrs in Excel & 11 yrs in Beacon. So be assured your kids will be in good hands! 
Aya Takagi Chua, a teacher in Spark. She used to be an ECLC teacher in ISM and used to teach pre school in Beacon and IT Support
Love the wide and clean spaces of the place
Easy access for the kids to wash their hands 🙂
His and Hers toilet 🙂
Diffusers with essential oils
December 21, Blessing
All out support from the families
Yummy refreshments
Student number 1 cutie Johanna Montilla
Spark Discovery Center @sparkdiscoverycenter
2nd flr Montivar Building 34 Jupiter street, Bel Air Makati
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Opening doors in January 2016
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Our family’s most favourite caviar pie is from Amy Alvarez
Previous entry: Melissa’s Caviar Pie December 23, 2009
A generous amount of caviar and so yummy!! contact +63 2 810 7680 Look for Raquel
After dinner we spent Noche Buena this way 🙂 
I was so happy to see Manang Caridad who was the cook of Lolo and Lola for 25 years. After which she operated 3 canteens in Rustan’s stores for 35 years. Now she is retired at 80 years old
And the greatest of these is LOVE! 🙂
Paper Moon is now open in SM Aura!
Do it yourself Mille crepe cake for Christmas. The kit comes in a separate package and you can decorate your own Christmas Mille crepe cake. 
You can use it to decorate any cake too 🙂
Savory items. Love the Croque Monsieu
YUM!
The best Mango Mille Crepe cake can only come from the country with the best source of mangoes. This will be like gold in Paper Moon Japan! 🙂
A beautiful pink and blue christmas at Gerry and Tina’s. We were happy to have Tita Minnie and Justin join us. We look forward to this every year and are always complete on Christmas eve dinner
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