TT - Las Vegas, NM Part 1

Welcome to our Las Vegas Tour!! If you look over there...you'll see the Bellagi....Wait a minute! Hey Rosy, where is the Bellagio, the Las Vegas Strip..the Neon?!?!?!

Well Sunny, this isn't  THAT Las Vegas, the one in Nevada. This is the "other" Las Vegas....Las Vegas, NEW MEXICO!

The town was known initially as Los Delores de Las Vegas Grandes 

or Our Lady of Sorrows on the Great Meadows and was settled as early as the 1600s.

The town of Las Vegas was officially established in 1835 by a group of settlers who received a grant from the Mexican government.

The town is laid out in traditional Spanish Colonial Style. There is a central plaza, surrounded by buildings. These buildings would help protect the people in case of an enemy attack.

Yep, buildings everywhere Rosy...I know I feel safe, plus Daddy is close..

Oh Sunny, this was in the ancient times...even BEFORE Daddy was born!

Now...where was I...

In 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered a speech claiming New Mexico for the United States. The Pueblo people, along with Hispanos, challenged this claim a year later in the Battle of Las Vegas. In the end though, in 1912, New Mexico became the 47th of the United States. 

Mama says not to get her started on this....so we won't.

Thank you for joining us for some history of Las Vegas, NV. 

Join us Thursday to hear about the Las Vegas Railroad and some of the

people it attracted! 

 

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

Happy Travel Tuesday - Angel Fire NM

CeCe, ready to go!

It seems like ions ago, but actually it was just a couple of weeks ago that we took CeCe in search of cooler weather. We pointed her toward the Santa Fe Mountains and Angel Fire, New Mexico.

"Are we there yet?"

It was about a 3 1/2 hour drive Northeast through the plains  and into the mountains of New Mexico. Mama and Daddy say it's a beautiful drive, but I slept through most of it...Oh well, that's why we bring Mama right?? We'll show you pictures on Friday of our "nature" travel moments.

Smiling for the camera

On this trip we had perfect weather(Sunny and temps in the 70s(F)) and went for lots of walks. Here we are getting ready for our second walk!

Super Models

The RV Resort was really nice. It had a big trail that went around the whole RV park!

Whoah.....horses are big!

Sunny saw some horses coming back from a trail ride.

Rosy: Is that a gopher over there??

Sunny was more into photoshoots this trip. Not me, there was too much to see and I just wanted to go, go, go!

So comfy

 The park had a nice clubhouse and patio where we could sit back and relax!

Why yes, this is a Yellowstone Camping Fire Pit

As usual, the weekend went way too fast and before we knew it we were enjoying our last "campfire" of the weekend! Mama and Daddy got this cool propane campfire maker since it's against the rules to have regular wood campfires in most of the places we camp.

Zzzzzzzzz

Mama saw more cool things on the way home that we'll feature in a Nature Friday soon..

but we missed it because, 

you know...

Zzzzzzzzzzz

 

 

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

A Happy Little Farm on Travel Tuesday

Happy Tongue Out Travel Tuesday! Today, I am going to show you the rest of my horse encounter, along with showing you around Lin's Mini Acres Farm, formerly known as Pleasant Journey Alpacas.

When we arrived at the farm, it was pretty stormy. After a couple of hours though, it stopped raining and we were able to get out and look around!

You could see the beginning of the Rocky Mountains from the farm. Look at all the snow still on the mountain peaks!

Here is a picture of the barn, that's CeCe parked right next to it so she could have some electricity(and we could have lights and heat). 

Once the sun came out, Mama and Daddy took a tour of the farm!

(it was pretty muddy, so we stayed in CeCe)

Mama wants to say this is a Shetland sheep but isn't sure. It was smaller than most sheep and has cute little 

tiny ears. It had just had its furs cut the week before.

This is a Miniature Zeb, this little cow is about as tall as a Great Dane, and as friendly as a Golden Retriever! His significant other, a female, was about the same size but much more reserved!

You want to see the animal Sunny and I liked the most???

It's a KITTY!!! This pretty girl kept hanging around CeCe and greeting Mama and Daddy. She might have been the friendliest barn kitty the pawrents have seen in awhile, but we made sure to bark at her LOUD so she didn't try to stowaway on CeCe!

Before we go any further, here is a video Mama made with ALL the pictures, and video. You'll see my horse encounter highlighted towards the end. 

You can also watch it HERE on YouTube

Now, here was Mama's favorite animal....The Alpaca

She says she would love to have one for her very own. 

HA! We let her know we would bark at it ALL.THE.TIME if she tried to bring one home. BOL!

We're going wordless for these....cause Mama took a million pictures of them 

🙄🙄🙄

See what I mean, so many Alpacas....so little time!

We hope you liked seeing the farm as much as we enjoyed visiting. We would definitely visit another alpaca farm and would love to go back and see Lin's kitty again!

 

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

The Murals of Tucumcari

Bonjour!! Today we are back in Tucumcari, NM to take a look

at some tres jolie mural artwork! Tucumcari has over 30 murals. They can be found on Route 66, along Main Street, and also hidden on the side streets. We(ok, maybe Mama and Daddy) had a blast looking for them!

The murals highlight the different things Tucumcari is known for, like Route 66 

Tourism

Railway traffic

and Ranching!

Former resident of  Tucumcari Doug Quarles, and his wife Mary, painted most of the murals in town. The Quarles' have since moved to Benson, Arizona to do a series of murals depicting that town's railroad history.

You may be asking why we aren't in any of the mural pictures. Well, first of all, the temps were in the 30s and it was chilly~burr~freezy~cold. But mostly, there were sooooooo many good smells and our attention span was a bit shorter than a fly near a garbage dump. Needless to say, Mama let us stay in the car with Daddy most of the time.

Mama says we would have looked great sitting in front of this mural.

She also mentioned she might send us off to The GBGV College of Mural posing. Madison and her pack always look so regal in front of the murals they find!

Mama  took SOOOOO many pictures and put together a little slide show

You can also watch it HERE on YouTube

Thanks so much for tagging along during our mural tour of Tucumcari today!

This wraps up the Tucumcari portion of our travels. We do have one more road trip tail to tell next week around the campfire. Be prepared to be spooked when we tell you about our visit to a real life 

GHOST TOWN!

  

We are joining Sandee at  Comedy Plus for the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

FFF/NF Camping Sunrise

Welcome to that wonderful Friday each month where Nature Friday comes together with YAM Aunty's FFF!!  Make sure to visit YAM Aunty HERE to get the Rulez and join the FFF fun!!

Camping Sunrise

by Rosy

 

While we are camping,

much to the pawrents dismay,

I can't wait to get up 

and start my day.

 

Watching the sunrise

while Mama drinks her latte,

there is nothing better

to begin my day!

 

Yellows and oranges,

purples and pinks 

There is nothing prettier,

That's what I think.

So if you ever have the chance to 

rise early and watch the sun rise

I say, go for it, even if

it makes your human sigh!

Tucumcari Sunrise

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thursday Thankfuls

 

 Today,  we are all thankful Sunny is on the mend. 

She sleeps a bunch, but is eating and getting out

 to stretch her long leggies to go potty. We are very thankful for all of your good thoughts, prayers, POTP and good juju!

 

 

 BUT...I am also very thankful I get to go on a special

camping trip with Daddy!! This weekend we are heading to

Santa Fe in CeCe, just Daddy and me!! 

 

 

 

Mama and Jakey are going to stay home and take care of Sunny!

Well, since we will only be about 45 minutes away, Mama is going to come up and visit us on Saturday for a little while.

 

 

Mostly though,  it will just be Daddy and me going for walkies, eating cheese, snuggling, eating cheese, playing games,eating cheese and all the other cool things Daddy's and Daddy's little girls do together.

Thank you Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!