Unfamiliar sights, familiar locales

Many of the terribles scenes in the photos Soni shared with other Crescent Hill folks from the web were of Guatemalan locales familiar to some folks. A town half way up the Picaya volcano that erupted late last month, San Vincente (pictured above), Soni, Stephanie, Perry, and others on the 2007 went though on their way up the volcano. This town the eruption badly damaged. Badly damaged by mudslides that tropical storm Agatha triggered was Amatitlan, the town adjacement to the camp where Ellen, Stephanie, Gerardo, Pablo, Stan, and Guatemala mission networks stayed for their November 2008 gathering. The pictures below illustrate some of the destruction. At the end of that trip, Stephanie and Ellen also stayed in Guatemala City, where the 2009 team also stayed with Soila and her husband, and Guatemala City is where the giant sinkhole (far below) developed.

-- Perry