Donna, Margene, and Jena decided they wanted to do some shopping in old town Manitou Springs on Wednesday. That left me with four kids to keep busy while they were gone. No problem, we'll just see what we can explore here at the Academy! And it turned out to be a pretty good adventure. It turned out to be a good day weather-wise, too. Overcast skies kept the temperature down until after about 2 o'clock.
We went to the visitors center to find out what all we could do and where we could go.
We found plenty to keep us busy for several hours!
We found plenty to keep us busy for several hours!
First there were all the exhibits in the visitor's center itself.
Including one of the gliders they use for training at the academy. We saw LOTS of these in flight from our vantage point at the campground.
Then we took the overlook path to the chapel. It's even more impressive in real life than all the pictures I'd seen.
Us on the steps of the chapel.
This place is big! It's 99 feet and 2 inches from the floor to the ceiling.
The design of the chapel was started in 1954 and the construction wasn't finished until 1963. Part of the reason may be the 24,000 pieces of stained glass in the walls and ceiling - and the placement of each one one was supervised by the architect!
After all the sculptures of planes on the plaza, we saw some real ones!
Like this B-52
and this A-10
and this T-38 trainer
After all that, it was back to the old reliable - the playground!
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Wow, you got some great pictures! Hope that you are all well and safely back by now?
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