Our son Brad Burningham´s visit November 20th through November 28th.

We were pleased and honored to have our son Brad visit us for a week.  He served his Mission here in Guatemala from 1992 through 1994 and was anxious to see how things have changed.

But first we traveled to some historic scenic places. We went first to Quirigua ruins on our way to Rio Dulce, stayed the night and then on to Tikal National Park. It was quite interesting to see all the ruins and hear about the various theories of how the ancient people lived.  Travel on some of the roads were difficult with speed bumps called "Tumulos".  One must slow down almost to a stop to travel over it so you don´t ruin your car.  Tumulos are put there to keep people from speeding.  Small towns have a lot of people walking and children playing and they mean business when they put in these tumulos to keep the residents safe.

On Sunday after we arrived back in the City we once again traveled....this time we traveled to Antigua where Brad served in one of his areas of his mission.  We have been to Antigua many times already and have enjoyed the sights and sounds.  We attended Church there where Brad said it had not changed much but the property had enlarged quite a bit.

The next day we traveled to Lake Atitlan to stay the night but not without looking over Solola and Panachel.  We enjoyed all that we saw....as for the food, that was suspect.  Both Brad and I became ill.  I needed antibiotics to get well.  Brad took some this morning before he left for the US.

Following are pictures.

 Traveling through a Banana Plantation

 Rio Dulce

Brad at the Fort San Felipe off the Rio Dulce River

 Brad at the Fort

 Brad in the ferry as we went across the river to our Hotel

 Al in the ferry to travel to the hotel

 Rio Dulce

The many ruins of Tikal

Its amazing how much was unearthed and how much archeologists can find out.

 Wild Turkeys everywhere

 I was amazed I got up here.  Fortunately there was a wood stair case.  Still quite high.

 Brad at the top of a structure we climbed.

 This was looking from the top of one temple to another.  They are so tall.

This is the highest but I did not want to climb the stairs to get to it.  Did it once but not again.

We took Brad to Atitlan and on the way we passed a banana plantation

Church meeting house in Atitlan

Me eating a tipico chicken soup.  It was alright but I was not feeling well the next day

 Hotel Atitlan, beautiful gardens throughout the whole property

 Waking up to the volcanos.  Beautiful sight

 This parrot really liked Al.  He would walk over every branch to get close to him

ugh

 Went to church in Antigua November 23.  Annual Primary Program

 The girls wore white dresses with yellow headbands. Boys wore white shirts and blue bow ties.

Children approaching their moms after the program.

Families love their children

Sweetheart of a child stood and posed for me after the program