Una erupción se produjo antes de la comida

Volcán de Fuego erupting
  La Reunión Golf Course
and Residences
La Antigua, Guatemala

Volcán Fuego, one of Central America's most active volcanoes, is one of three large stratovolcanoes overlooking Guatemala's former capital, Antigua. The scarp of an older edifice, Meseta, lies between Fuego at 3,763 meters above sea level (12,346 feet) and its twin volcano to the north, Acatenango. Those twins stand together to the west of the city of Antigua while the third prominent volcano, Agua, looms high at an elevation above sea level of 3,760 meters (12,336 feet). For centuries dormant, she lies sleeping to the south of the city center. These days only Fuego is active.

Six of us were just about ready to be seated for lunch at La Reunión Golf Resort and Residences thirteen kilometers distant from Antigua when we felt, heard and saw this activity. While I can share the visual sense with you, I apologize that you could neither feel nor hear this eruption. It was not impotent!

On Wednesday of this past week Paul invited us to join him, his wife, daughter Judy and their friend Lida at the La Reunión for birthday celebrations for his wife Ruth. Both Ruth and Lida will have birthdays up-coming in the next days or weeks. Ruth will be celebrating her 80th. 

Lida is a long-time friend of the Philippis who was born and lived in Antigua. But, for the past several decades has been working as an educator in Auckland, New Zealand. She takes the time to come home for school holidays so we manage to see her almost every year that we return to Guatemala.

We drove from Antigua to this lovely spot, arriving before the skies began to cloud over. When we entered the resort area, there were no visible clouds and the twin volcanoes were crystal-clear in the distance. Both were sleeping lazily and there was no promise that we would see anything unusual. We strolled about the lovely grounds for a while and took some pictures. Some of our party managed to peek through a telescope at the fissures atop the Fire Volcano. That gifted those who looked with a close-up of the mouth of the smoldering inferno within. 

Little did any of us know that we would within minutes enjoy the sight, sound and sensation of activity as we felt the earth rumble with the eruption shoot high in the Heavens. I wandered out to the front of the resort minutes before we were going to be seated for lunch. It was then that this show was displayed. I was not disappointed. I share it with you except for the sound and feel!