We took a weekend trip to beautiful Lucerne. This innovative water play park was very close to our hotel | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0844.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0847.jpg) | The famous bridge, which is actually a reproduction after a 1998 fire | | Fountains everywhere |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0853.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0852.jpg) | This very friendly man had a crystal stand at a marketplace. We bought a few crystals for the kids, and he ended up giving us a few more as well. | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0855.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0864.jpg) | In one of the towers that form part of the Lucerne city wall | | We went right next to a school racetrack, and Kenny tested his speed |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0868.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0873.jpg) | | | This grating across a bad floor in one of the towers had supports just far enough apart to be quite dangerous |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0876.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0882.jpg) | | | We saw this helicopter land at the hosital |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0896.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0897.jpg) | On another one of the bridges - the Spreuerbruecke, all the triangular bridges were on the theme of death and the plague | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0903.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0907.jpg) | | | Another view of the famous water tower in Lucerne |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0910.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0911.jpg) | I took a bike ride on my own with a bike borrowed from the Hotel Cascada. It was short but wonderful. A few pictures from my ride... | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0923.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0954.jpg) | | | At the famous Transport museum in Lucerne |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0960.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0973.jpg) | | | These look like toy cars, but they're actually full sized cars in an automated parking garage. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0978.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_0987.jpg) | | | This was the kids favorite - a hands-on road building section |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/08-04-2012/gallery_img_1001.jpg) | | | The huge tunnel boring drill bit at the entry | | | | | | | | | |