圈外闲人
Amazon专栏作家 http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer-Fu/e/B004Y218FQ
游客来去匆匆，但是雄狮却是永恒的。站立在同一个地点，聆听着同一个故事，同样为瑞士勇士所感动，在不同的时间轴上，从前是七岁的儿子，现在是十二岁的女儿。这是著名的狮子纪念碑，曾被马克·吐温称为世界上最哀伤、最感人的石雕。
我又一次来到了卢森，登上了世界上最美丽的覆顶木桥：卡贝尔桥。女儿可兴奋了，趴在花桥边上，睁着好奇的眼睛欣赏着卢森，欣赏着湖边巴洛克式的古城。
如果说在苏伊士时女儿情迷天鹅，那么现在她就是情痴天鹅了。天鹅是上帝的尤物，纯白圣洁，有天鹅的地方就是天堂了。
天堂中的鸭子也够神气的，亮丽的羽毛梳理得整整齐齐。
一只天鹅转过头来，“小妹妹，不要光顾旁观啊，领略一下天鹅的风姿。”
“怎么？”女儿不理解。
天鹅盯着她的脚看，“你的脚不能只站着，你得骄傲地提起来，象天鹅那样的优雅。”
女儿疑惑着，然后猛然醒悟，“就像那样！”
她也提起了脚。
天鹅赞许地点点头，“有点像了。”
卢森的另一景是阿尔卑斯的火龙峰，上山的时候坐着齿轮火车，一轮一轮，沿着斜坡上的轨道上爬。
途中看到美丽的湖泊。
起伏的山峦。
山顶则是大雪覆盖的观景台。
我们先吃了午饭，然后在观景台上打雪仗。
女儿觉得不过瘾，想要爬上山顶的小坡。天寒地冻，坡高路滑，我本来是准备打退堂鼓的，但是看到了积雪之中的小野花，我心底里的豪情被激发起来。“好，我们比赛，看谁先上火龙峰的尖顶！”
六月里大雪纷飞，多穿了衣服还是不够。女儿用背包来挡寒，我们一步一哆嗦地登上了顶峰。
虽然白茫茫的一片，四周的能见度很低。但是我们自豪，我们兴奋，永远记住了这一时刻，记住了山顶那只欢快跳跃的小胖鸟，以及山顶尖至高无上的黑色十字架。
时间永远不够用，又到了下山的时候。
下山的路分成了两段，先是一群人挤进笼子一样的电梯，来到了半山腰的游乐场。
我好想走一走吊桥，滑一段下山的吊索，可是没有时间啦，我们按着导游的要求上了吊笼。
没有了风，没有了雪，又见到了青翠的山峦、城市的烟火，最后降落到一片绿油油的草地。经历了几千米高度的变迁，经历了夏冬的再交替，真让人产生一种天上人间的幻觉。
晚上我们在这家店吃了瑞士火锅，奶酪火锅香醇，牛肉火锅鲜嫩，白鱼火锅味美，反正都好吃啦。进去的时候是白天，出来的时候却是夜晚了。
我们穿越夜色中的都市，再一次来到覆顶木桥。木桥内亮着灯，照着三角形的油画，显现着别样的韵味。
噢，美丽的不夜花桥，还有不睡的白天鹅。
我们累了，在夜色中酣睡了。
17 day trip – day 6
Old Town: four out of five
Today, I took a bus from Zurich to Lake Lucerne. (In German, it's Luzern instead of Lucerne.) I had A LOT of free time. One of the things I did was to explore the city of Lucerne, which is split into two parts: Old Town and New Town. In Old town, some of the buildings are 400 years old! Some of them have paintings on them, and even though the houses are old, the paint looks very fresh. Another thing I did was walk on a bridge. It's supposed to be the most beautiful bridge in the world, but I think that's because of the swans. There are even more swans in Lucerne than in Zurich. These swans are even vainer than the Zurich ones. These swans preen themselves constantly. There are also some Mallard Ducks in Lucerne. The ducks and the swans seem to sometimes wage war. A swan might force a duck away from a prime preening spot, but sometimes the huge swans are cowed into submission by the comparatively tiny ducks.
Pilatus Kulm part I: five out of five
At 11:30 AM, I went to a train to go up to Pilatus Kulm, a high mountain in Switzerland. This was no ordinary train, though. The mountain is very steep; at one point it's at a 48 ͦ angle from the ground. The train is built in such a way that even on the mountain, the seats form a right angle against the ground. Also, the train's coaches move separately, not as one train. During one part of the train ride, it even started snowing! The trip is supposed to about 40 minutes long, but it felt much shorter.
Pilatus Kulm part II: five out of five
Once the train trip ended, I discovered that there was a hotel near the top of the mountain! Inside it was very warm. I had a quick lunch of pasta. Then, I went outside the hotel and went up a short path to an old structure. There was one area that was over another, and I tested my theory about what would happen if a snowball fell from one place to another. Needless to say, it splatted on the ground and left a white mark. The mark of snow left on the ground looked like a water balloon had been tossed down. My mom kept on taking pictures, so I offered her a no-picture-taking therapy of covering her fingers with snow so that she wouldn't be able to take pictures. She declined.
Pilatus Kulm part III: five out of five
After that, I had to go back to Lucerne. I took a different way down than the one I'd taken up. First, I had to jam myself into a crowded cable car. I could barely see out of the windows with all of the people blocking me, so I decided to get closer. When I did, though, a fog rolled in so that I couldn't see anything. I'm very peeved at the fog. Next, I had to get on a gondola saw some silver cargo gondolas. My mom suggested getting on one of those, but being human cargo wasn't my ideal way of travel. I got on a red one instead. It was the type that skiers use to get up a mountain sometimes, except this time I was going down. The entire way down, I saw many, many big trees. When I came out, I was in Lucerne's New Town.
I would put in the average score, but for now, I'm too sleepy to. See you next time!
