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We took a cruise tour in Lake Washington the next day of visiting Snoqualmie Falls.

The tour takes about 1 1/2 hours and the ticket costs around $30. Fortunately it was a sunny day so that we could see the nice surrounding. The mansions along the shore were really beautiful. One of them was famous Bill Gates' house. 

Another interesting fact that you can see during the tour is the floating bridge. They made it "floating" because the lake is very deep and it would cost much more for concrete beams otherwise. 

The tour is narrated and therefore you get to know all these details. 
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We visited Seattle again in June, 2013 (first time visit was in 2011).

This time we planned to visit few different places.

Snoqualmie Falls is located in Snoqualmie, WA. It is easily accessible and the entrance is free. The fall is really attractive too. However the trail to the bottom of the fall was closed at the time when we visited. It would have been more attractive if we could watch from there.

Anyway, the look from the top was not bad at all.
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Colorado National Monument is located near Utah border in Colorado. It took around 4 hours to drive there from the hotel we stayed in.

The environmental change we observed, is amazing while we were approaching Utah border. It was so cool and greenish around Denver and it became really dry and reddish as we proceed. We passed red colored hills made by only rocks and sands. The sights were really beautiful and interesting.

Finally we entered the park and took Rim Rock drive which is a scenic drive in Colorado national monument. It is easy to post some pictures than describing the beauty of the scenery.

Then we drove back to Denver and spent the night there hoping to fly back home next day.
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