Day 23 Jasper

We spent a very quiet day at the hotel enjoying the facilities.

The hotel is a very popular wedding venue, which made it great fun people watching. Guests of all shapes, sizes and styles paraded before us going to and returning from their respective ceremonies.

There were a couple of very interesting cars at the hotel that were vying for interest with our Morgans. One was a Ford GT 40 replica, which looked very smart and the other was a Canadian made Buick called a McLaughlin.

Elaine’s birthday continued and an ad hoc champagne reception had been organised in one of the cabins followed by dinner in the hotels main restaurant. The champagne buyers turned out to be very enthusiastic supplying much more than was needed, but we made very good inroads into the surplus.

Dinner was excellent; the party were split into groups of four or six and we were fortunate enough to sit with a local Morgan owner and his wife, both of whom had been to the “Centenary” in Cheltenham. The meal and company were excellent. Pudding was a birthday cake for Elaine and Carolyn. Instead of candles we put sparklers onto the cake lit them and just a few seconds later all the fire alarms went off! Oh what fun! A wedding party in an adjacent room were evacuated, other guests in the restaurant complained that their romantic dinners had been ruined and sparks from the sparklers melted the table-cloths. The farce and chaos disappeared along with smoke and the drama subsided to calm. I think the hotel were happy to wave us off the next morning.