Flooding from Tropical storm Agatha. It was much worse than this but it was raining so hard we couldn't get a picture.
The black sand-like ash from the volcano.
The streets after the volcano errupted
We needed to take a trip to Guatemala city to renew our tourist visa for another 90 days here in Guatemala. The city is on the other side of the country from us so we took an 8 hr bus ride there and planned to visit friends and see a few sights along the way. The trip ended up being quite the adventure. Our visas ended up taking 3 days to get figured out with documents being e-mailed from the states and many photocopies made of everything you could possibly imagine. On day 2 of our trip a volcano only 30 miles out of the city errupted dumping a black sand-like ash to cover the city. Everybody scrambeled to try and clean this up because a tropical storm was coming and all this sand would clog the street drainage causing flooding. Well, day 4 of our trip tropical storm Agatha rolled into town flooding all of the streets and causing some serious sink holes in the city. We had planned on visiting some other nearby sights but new that was now impossible due to mudslides so we determined it best just to catch the bus home. But now the bus couldn't leave either because of a river that had flooded over its banks and the road back home. So, we waited. We were blessed to be staying with friends instead of stuck in a hotel. And we are very thanbkful that we were all safe. Yesterday we were finally able to return and it feels good to be home. Above are pictures of some of the sights on this trip.
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