Managing to have a lie-in was a good start and being able to enjoy breakfast without any timetable to stick to was a bonus. The hotel has a wildlife museum (free to guests) so we had a wander around that. Then we headed outside and wandered down Jasper's main street, pottering around the various shops and buying presents and postcards to send to our friends. We bumped into a couple we had met on the Rocky Mountaineer trip and compared notes - they were also having a quiet day before picking up a rental car and driving to Calgary. I mentioned we would be heading for Calgary ourselves but not until Sunday and that we would be on a coach taking us to the airport for our flight to Toronto.
A bit more pottering around and then we had a coffee while we wrote out our postcards. While we were wandering around Jasper I took some more photos because in every direction you looked there were mountains ..
We visited the local tourist information centre to get directions to the local post office. Because Canada is celebrating 150 years in 2017 (or more correctly, the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Canadian Confederation) the local TIC employees were taking photos with a rather large red balloon. The wind wasn't helping and they had to hold it down (or at least try!) with some large stones. I have to say, watching them I thought any moment we might see a scene similar to 'The Prisoner' but with them chasing the balloon rather than the other way around ..
Some more shopping and as we knew we would be checking out early(ish) the following morning (08:20), on the way back to the hotel, we grabbed a couple of rolls from the local Subway. The hotel's in-house restaurant was an Italian-themed one and because we both liked the menu we ate there again rather than heading out into town again to find anywhere else.
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