Ski Lodge: Millers Idlewild Inn : Adventures in Snow Business - Softcover

Cornell, Virginia Miller

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9780962789670: Ski Lodge: Millers Idlewild Inn : Adventures in Snow Business

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ISBN 10: 0962789674 ISBN 13: 9780962789670

Publisher: Manifest Pubns, 1994

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The following is an excerpt from Chapter 17:

"White Christmas"

Throughout the week between Christmas and New Year's a steady stream of people tromped into the Inn - seeking a room for the night.

"We're sorry, but most of our accommodations have been reserved since August," Tonto would explain, over and over.

"Couldn't we just sleep on your couch?" Of course, we couldn't allow our lounge to become an overnight depot for people who didn't plan ahead. Denver, where there were plenty of motels, was only two hours away. It would be very unfair to guests who had anticipated their vacations since summer to crowd the Inn with latecomers.

Weary of explaining, Tonto turned to me one afternoon. "Do you know who the most underappreciated person in the Bible was?"

"No, who?"

"That innkeeper in Bethlehem. Here comes Mary and Joseph - with a jackass yet. He did his best, offered them a place to sleep in the stable. No wonder there wasn't any room at the Inn. Didn't they know it was Christmas?"

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Chapter 17 White Christmas

Throughout the week between Christmas and New Year's a steady stream of people tromped into the Inn - seeking a room for the night.
"We're sorry, but most of our accommodations have been reserved since August," Tonto would explain, over and over.
"Couldn't we just sleep on your couch?" Of course, we couldn't allow our lounge to become an overnight depot for people who didn't plan ahead. Denver, where there were plenty of motels, was only two hours away. It would be very unfair to guests who had anticipated their vacations since summer to crowd the Inn with latecomers.

Weary of explaining, Tonto turned to me one afternoon. "Do you know who the most underappreciated person in the Bible was?"
"No,who?"
"That innkeeper in Bethlehem. Here comes Mary and Joseph - with a jackass yet. He did his best, offered them a place to sleep in the stable. No wonder there wasn't any room at the Inn. Didn't they know it was Christmas?"

Review:

High in the mountains, there was once a rustic, homemade ski lodge - populated by reluctant honeymooners, errant husbands, truant plumbers, youthful ski bums . . . plus one naive innkeeper.

An innkeeper invites you to check into the Miller family's funky old Inn high in The Rockies -- where the grub was great and the powder was deep. With humor and insight the author remembers when, as a single mother, she struggled to fill the gigantic footprints vacated by her frenetically energetic father. Her first year in the Inn business brought adventures -- hilarious, romantic, tragic. Relive life as she skied it early in the 1970s. -- From the Publisher

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