Colorado Springs

What a fun weekend! It was fun to see my Tracey this weekend and visit so many tourist sites around Colorado Springs. I already wrote about my great drive on Friday, so let me pick up with Saturday. We started out the day at the Garden of the Gods, and hiked a couple of the trails, mainly the one up to the Siamese Twins rocks (see picture below).

Then we tried to go to Glen Eyrie, the castle on the grounds of the Navigators campus, but it was closed due to special events they had going on. So instead, we went to a Monastery that Tracey has visited and walked around on their grounds. Here’s a photo of the grounds where they have a cemetery with the stations of the cross on the edges. There were also deer all around, just sitting there watching us.

Then we drove around downtown Colorado Springs, which turned out to be not much to see, although we did a find a Chipotle to eat dinner at. We ended the day with a visit to Seven Falls, a waterfall tourist trap area. The waterfall was pretty, but you had to climb 224 very steep stairs to get the top for the high view. We decided to climb the stairs, which almost did me in. Nothing like a good reminder of how out of shape I am! Here’s a photo of me holding on for dear life on the stairs, and one of Tracey by the falls.

On Sunday we went to church at Woodman Valley Chapel, then over to the Air Force Academy for a quick visit. One of the prettiest sites at the Academy is the chapel and we were surprised to see that there were actual four chapels: the protestant chapel, the catholic chapel, the jewish chapel, and the buddest chapel. I took photos of each one and will put them on my facebook page to save room here, but here’s a photo of the outside of the building that houses them all.

Fun weekend!