Today we went to Seven Falls in Colorado Springs.  It's located in a box canyon, which is surrounded on 3 sides by 900' of towering, granite walls.  The mouth of the canyon is only 41' wide, and the road leading to the falls is very narrow.  Because it's so narrow, and the walls are so high the pictures don't really do it justice... and you end up with a pain in the neck from looking up so much!  The falls at the end of the mile long canyon has 7 distinct waterfalls.  We took the elevator to the observation deck, we weren't up to taking the 280 stairs!

The road going into the canyon.

The falls are 180' high.

Rainbow trout being fed in the stream.

Looking up at the observation deck.

After Seven Falls, we went to the visitor center at the Air Force Academy.  We were expecting more models and exhibits, but it was mostly just informational things and a huge gift shop.  We couldn't tour the chapel because it was booked for weddings all afternoon.  A few pictures of the area -

Every day, on our way wherever we're going, we pass this sign about the John May Museum of huge bugs.  Today we decided to stop on our way back to the camper, and boy were these bugs HUGE!  This man collected these bugs, moths, spiders, butterflies, scorpions, and beetles from his travels around the world.  Hundreds and hundreds and possibly thousands of bugs mounted in cases.  Some of them were 100 years old, but you couldn't tell because they all looked perfectly preserved.  Each was mounted and had a small note with the name, where it was found, and the date.  We were very happy to find that not many of these huge, mean looking things were found in the US.  And we decided we will never go to New Guinea!  I would NEVER be able to leave the house! lol