Days Like These

Yesterday, I did a lot of touring here in Colorado Springs! One of my roomies, Alex, planned a day of adventures! It was fantastic!

First, we toured the Air Force Academy.  Alex has a few friends that attend there and we were able to get a tour that “no one else gets”. 

Our wonderful tour guide, Andrew, and my lovely roomie, Alex



Alex and I with...uh, I forget



I would have to say that the best part about the Air Force Academy was the chapel.  It was soooo beautiful! It was built in the 1950’s.  The architecture is incredible!



Incredible right?!



The massive organ!

Needless to say, weddings are booked years in advance.  And sometimes they pack 4-5 weddings in one day.

After spending a wonderful hour and a half there, Alex and I hit up Starbucks.  We both decided to try the new frappuccino, Mocha Coconut.  Let me tell you…it was AMAZING!!! It was just like a candy bar.  We even took the lids off and licked off the toppings.  Mmm so good!

After Starbucks, Alex took me to Focus on the Family.  We looked around the bookstore a little, and then we headed downstairs to Whit’s End!  Talk about a blast from the past.  It was so neat.  They had a cute little soda shop just like Whit!  They also had this two story slide that I just had to ride.  I went up the stairs with a little girl.  She barely made the height requirement to ride the slide and I was almost over.  But we both enjoyed sliding our feet into carpet bags and we cried “wee wee wee” all the way down.  Ok, not really….

Whit's End!

Ok, so there elevator was made into the "imagination station" from Adventures in Odyessey.  Well, I was trying to take a picture of it and a random guy walked out....awkward.

Success!

Next stop: Lunch!  Earlier in the week, Alex found out that I had never been to Chipotle.  She was appalled! So we planned it into our day.  We met up with Andrew there.

Here I go!

We spent two and a half hours there, chatting and watching academy guys jumping from planes.

Finally, we concluded our day with a trip to Garden of the Gods.  Wow! What a gorgeous place! I just kept singing “God of wonders” over and over in my head.  What a majestic place…what a magnificent God I serve!!!

First, we walked the middle and then we drove around it.  Gorgeous!

We got back to our place around 6 pm and let me tell you, I was dog tired.  AND I was sun burnt.  Whew! My face was like a tomato last night and thankfully its faded a little today. 

So…I’m loving Colorado Springs.  Honestly I am seriously thinking about visiting again really soon and would LOVE to move here sometime in the near future.  Maybe EDGE Corps? Maybe stationed at UCCS? I’m gonna dream… but in the meantime I’m going to keep living it up here in the Springs J

Alex and I love country music and thats pretty much all we listened to the entire day.  Jason Aldean puts a day like this perfectly:

"Life is short

Lets go live it

Ain't no time for wasting time

Days like these they go by too fast

Yeah, days like these you wanna make them last"