July 14th: There's a hole in my bucket...

There's a bear in the park, Sofie, Sofie
There's a bear in the park and what should I do?

You talk to the bear, Renee, Renee
You talk to the bear very quietly Renee

And what should I say, Sofie, Sofie
And what should I say to the bear Sofie?

... I didn't get any further than this singing while cycling, but I imagine I will come up with the rest one day.

So before leaving our nice wooden cabin, I asked Sofie:"what if I open the door and a bear is standing in front of our door?" "Ah," she answered "you have to check before you open the door! Look trhough the peeping hole..." I must say that when we finally left, Sofie just opened the door as if nothing could happen.
Breakfast was great: sitting in front of the general store on a bench, face in the sun, hot chocolate in one hand and a bagel with a banana in the other. What more is life about?
We bicycled up to Jackson Lodge - the fancy lodging place - but inside there is this huge sitting room where everyone can just plunge into a sofa and enjoy the view of the mountains (yes, there was still snow on them!). Outside we watched two young prairiedogs playing with each other. As we left the lodge, Sofie read that someone had seen a bear two miles from the lodge. I thought for sure: this will be the moment.
Alas, the trompeter swans were gone fishing in some other river - not the Snake and the bear went berry picking on another mountain. We saw hardly any wildlife. Guess we had to do with the wildflowers along the road. If you are ever there, take the ride along Jenny lake and cut in along the campground. It's wild and there's hardly anyone there - this in contrast with the crowd at the visitor center at jenny Lake.
This year we could enjoy the awesome bike path from the center to Moose - just outside Teton park. We hopped inside the new visitor center of the park: what an enjoyable experience and we were lucky 'cause authors were sitting there signing their work... which I coudn't resist. People were standing on the bridge across the Snake river and I hoped this was going to be IT... well - seeing a moose grazing next to the river was also awesome.
Moose has an outdoor outlet shop called Moosely Seconds and Sofie got herself a new hat - for the cold days in Utah!!!
The road to Jackson Hole will get much nicer when the bikepath will continue on until town - at the Dairy Queen, where I got my first coke float of the trip!
Sofie and I had our bicycles checked in the local bicycle shop... what a friendly people we met!
In the evening we walked to town and I guess we ate in the most fancy place - I almost asked the waiter if we could do the dishes instead of paying.