Colorado Springs
This year’s first of two Fall vacations was taken to Colorado Springs, Colorado. My friends Tom & Corinna and their daughter, Hollis, 
have moved from Anchorage, Alaska, to Colorado, and we were able to make it out to visit them for a long weekend. Tom is now stationed at the Air Force Academy, so we got to drive around base and take pictures and harass the overpopulation of white tail deer. We even got to see a coyote! While at the Academy, we went to the visitor’s center and watched a short film about the school, saw the building of the chapel, saw several other displays and bought trinkets. After that we went to the Chapel which was just weird. Really neat architecture, but all of the school buildings were very shiny metal finish, kind of cold in appearance. If I keep going into all this detail, I’ll never get through this thing, so on to the important stuff… I did not go by myself, I was able to go with Judith! She’s an absolutely wonderful lady that I love spending time with, and was lucky enough to convince her to go with me and we’re both glad we went! I also snuck some pictures of her in so I could show the world a beautiful lady.
She got to meet some of my close friends and we got to hang out and see a bunch of really cool stuff. After the Air Force Academy, we visited Garden of the Gods, just outside of town. It was very surreal, the rocks were very red and it seemed like they were turned 90 degrees from what they should have been, like all the strata was left to right instead of top to bottom. There was so much to see that day, there were mule deer, a homestead, awesome coffee, Pike’s Peak, Cripple Creek and just way too much to process in one day.
I’m done posting pictures for tonight, but there is one more group to come… Garden of the Gods pictures. Sometime this week I’ll get those posted. There are some really cool pictures in the group to come.