Home sweet home

I've meant to take some fantastic pictures of the Academy but I just don't know how to do it appropriately. So what we have here is a pretty poor sampling. Everytime I took a picture I was disappointed with the way it turned out. They definitely don't capture the true feeling of walking in the front doors. You initally walk through a massive wrought iron gate. When you get buzzed in by the guard, actually only a cut-out the size of a normal door opens, which is embedded in the main gate. You then walk around a foutain and up to the set of stairs in the photo. This gets you into the courtyard, from where you can enter (through the door pictured) into the housing area, library, billiard room, etc. Another picture is of one of the sides of the courtyard where we eat when we have lunch outside.