Not all that glitters is silver!!

On our last day in Las Cruces, we took all the critters once again and drove up to Silver City, a place much touted as being charming, neato, quaint, worthy, etc. Yeah, whatever! We wouldn't recommend it. Our first clue that it wasn't quite as advertised? The Walmart.

But this view of the Santa Rita Mine was pretty amazing...

And something we saw on the way up there: check out the cool artwork on these freeway on-ramps!

Scratty at rest at a rest stop.

Another omen, however, of bad things to come may have been the puncturevine, or goatheads - terrible stickers that monopolized both dogs' paws at this stop. Ouray got so many in all his paws, he just quit moving - couldn't move a paw. He looked so pitiful, and when I picked up his paws, I saw why!

The kids tour the town, cruise the boulevard.

Doing it in style. Our felines are NOT finicky, and they thought they'd died and gone to heaven! Drive-through ice cream! What a great idea!!! Yes please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, again, all was not wasted on this outing...

But wait, there's more...!