U.S Air Force Academy

For all of our followers that was waiting for Gina to ride that horse well, your going to have to wait one more day. Due to the weather it was changed from yesterday to today. I’m glad too since it rained here yesterday during the same time we would have been riding. Come back tomorrow and I’ll have pictures.

It snowed on Pikes Peak last night

We decided to move campgrounds after Mom & Pop’s left and we found out that our trail ride was moved to Saturday. We got everything loaded up and were pulling out of the campground at 10:30. We moved our home to the campground at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Welcome to the U.S. Air Force Academy

We headed out to the visitor’s center once we got our home set up to find out what we could tour on the base. This has to be one of the nicest visitor’s center we have every seen. From there we walked over to the courtyard by the chapel. We enjoyed walking and reading all of statues. We then toured the Protestant Chapel. What an amazing structure.
The cadet chapel took five years to design and an additional four years to build. Construction began in 1959 and was completed in 1963 at a cost of $3.5 million. This cost was just for the framework alone. All furnishings within the chapel were financed by members of the Air Force or private donations. Quite impressive!! Here's a few picture and if you would like to see more just click this link: online photo album.

Rear view of the Chapel

Front view of the Chapel

Looking through the entrance

Looking toward the rear

Close up view of the Pipe Organ

largest pipe is 32 feet and the smallest is 5 inches

It decided to rain on us while we were doing our walking tour. However, we didn’t get too wet. We had pretty much seen what we wanted to so back to the truck we went. We then drove over to the Base Exchange and Commissary to look around. Gina did find a few items she couldn’t live without. We finally made it back home around 6:15 and soon after we were enjoying a steak and baked potato for dinner.

We’re in a hurry this morning since the Air Force has a home football game and all roads will be one way coming on the base to the stadium. Gina said, “I’m not missing my horse ride today because of a football game”. I just laughed. Looking forward to a wonderful day in the “Garden of the Gods”.


Gina & I hope everyone has a pleasant and wonderful day, enjoying what our Father has so graciously blessed us with.