At the Hyatt Regency in Monterey, CA tonight 32 GP owners-to-be and their partners were invited to a special Welcome Reception & Dinner – good food, great company, a nice speech from MINI USA VP Jim McDowell, and special guests Mike Cooper, and Kay Segler MINI VP worldwide)!
After touring Carmel today we returned to the hotel and headed over to register with MINI for the GP delivery events. We also met up with a few other GP owners that have been chatting via mail …
Tonight continues with a GP Customer welcome reception & dinner tonight, then the GP delivery “main event” tomorrow!
We went to Carmel today to see Concours D’Elegance cars on display; to see the cars read my GBMINI entry. Other views of Carmel:
M&I / GBMINI 
