For this contest we want to hear all about your summer travels! Where have you gone or where are you going? Leave us a comment on this post about your summer vacation plans for a chance to win! Six winners will be chosen and announced on Friday to win a fun Traveling Goodie Bag from OMC!
Good luck, safe traveling, and happy crafting!
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This summer is going to be busy yet fun. Despite it nearly the end of June we have been really busy. we took a trip to the carolinas end of may and will be staying home for a while visiting family and just enjoying the weather :)
Well, its winter here, so I should just travel to the US for summer! I can have summer all year round. Where ever I head to, I just need a camera and a tonne of Bo Bunny Barefoot and Bliss paper from OMC to make fabulous summery beach layouts when I get home.
Summer holiday? We absolutely love ROTTNEST ISLAND, off the coast of Western Australia... If ever you get the chance, make sure you head there. We go for a week and experience beautiful beaches, bikeriding for the whole family, cute little quokkas (not found anywhere else in the world) and of course it wouldn't be an Aussie Summer without a BBQ for dinner each night! Too gorgeous to fully describe, best I go scrap some pages about it!! Thanks for the chance!
My Husband travels frequently for his job so we take mini vacations during our summer when ever we can fit them in.
This month we are going to Wilmington NC for one of our mini vacations.
Besides the beach, Wilmington has alot of fun things to do. There are several historic houses and plantations to visit, a WWII Battleship, deepsea fishing, an Aquarium, Haunted Tours of Old Wilmington, shopping, tours of the screen gems studios, etc.
Wilmington is one of our favorite places to visit.
Tami
http://scrappinrabbitdesigns.blogspot.com
Presently I am in Boston for 2 weeks. I am helping my sister and her family get their house ready to sell. It's been a work vacation, but we've managed to get a day at Cape Cod,some sighteeing in, and some family time in. I'm from Minnesota, so this was a great get away.
We are mostly about "staycations" here. We are going to go camping at Allegeny State Park, and so some camping at our property in the country. BUT...no big trips planned for us. Camping is what we are all about.
We have what we call "stay"cations.... My hubs works out of town ALL the time, so wherever he's currently "stay"ing/working is our "stay"cation. This year it is Jacksonville, FL...... (last yr it was San Francisco). We get to travel to any of his working locations and spend time with him and have a vacation all at the same time!!! Courtesy of his company!!!
For the fourth year now, my daughters and I take a shopping trip from Toronto to NY state in the summer. Great fun shopping, but also a chance to catch up since they're adults now.
Hmmmm...I'm not sure anybody would ever consider it vacationing, but we follow and support our soon-to-be-a-senior daughter with summer softball. We go every weekend (almost) and watch up to 8 games. We eat sunflower seeds, drink lots of water, use lots of sunscreen, and tote chairs and coolers just about everywhere we go! Go team Fury!!!
My summer travel. So far my son and I have spent 2 weeks in Daytona Beach Florida, visiting my MIL. We hope to get to Dallas Texas to see my parents.
I am so excited for summer! My mom and I are going to Europe! This will be both our second time being there. Also, this year marks my mom and her pen pals 50 YEARS of writing to each other (they started when they were 8!), and we are going to visit her in England after our tour we are taking! I am so excited to see London, Amsterdam, Germany, Switzerland (my fav, and where we will be for my 27th birthday), and Paris! After the trip I will be headed up to my parents cabin for a relaxing weekend with some friends! I am so excited, and we leave in less than a month!!
cherie.goyer at gmail.com
http://oneheartscrapper.blogspot.com
I am planning a trip to the Oregon coast and I'm hoping to have both of my kids but one is taking a summer college course, so we'll have to see. But I love getting to the ocean and can hardly wait!
Every year we go to my family cottage. It is my absolute favourite place!! I can't wait to go again this year!! Thanks for the chance to win!
So far we havent done much, son spent a week at Cub scout camp - amusement park in a couple of weeks then a trip South to ATL to visit some family! Also some major life transitioning with a job change for my husband! :)
Well my trip for this summer was going to the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas. It was my first year going. I AM GOING BACK NEXT YEAR for sure. :)
I got to meet Jenni Bowlin, Melissa Frances, Teri Anderson, and Michelle Granger. Was so much fun. :) I can't wait for next year!!
Thanks for a chance to win.
Ally
Well it's supposed to be around 90 today, so a dip in the pool is in order for a fun summer day!
We are traveling to Florida then Colorado and can't wait to try a Smash book!!!!! Sure could use a goody bag too!
We are going to the Cape this summer for the first time ever. We live so close and have never been. I am very very excited!
this summer, i am taking my daughter to Riviera Maya, Mexico for her 18th birthday. Its our first offical trip outside our country so we are very excited ;)
This summer I will be very busy scrapping as I've just been given a Design Team position on scrapbooking website Colorful Creations. Then in September we are all going over to Italy for my brothers wedding which we can't wait for - we haven't seen him for a year since we moved to the USA from the UK last summer. :-)
I'm going to take my best friend to see Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills of South Dakota. I used to live in that area and she's never seen the monument. I'm really looking forward to the scenic drive through Custer State Park, too!
I am excited to be going to Okeechobee Florida in August where I will be visiting with my youngest son celebrating his 23 birthday and going with his fiance to help her find her wedding dress. It is going to be so great to finally see where my future daughter in laws family lives and where she and my son will be married in December. I am so excited about spending this time with them as I don't get to see them often!!
This year will be our fourth year renting a cabin at Little Norway resort in Park Rapids, MN for the fourth of July week . We've been a bit notorious during our stays. The first year there, my daughter rolled out of bed in the middle of the night and broke her collar bone. She was a rock star that week. The second year, we brought a boat and promptly sunk it (recovered it as well, but we won't be taking the boat back again). Last year, we made it out unscathed except for the chiding we received from the resort staff (all in good fun, right?). This year, I again hope to enjoy our week with no mishaps. This is also the first year that my girls. 6 and 7, have been talking about going to the cabin since Christmas. They love the beach, catching frogs, getting temporary tattoos out of the vending machine, catching (and releasing) fish, and feeding the ducks. We really enjoy our time there!
Every Year we go to Colorado for the summer but since Gas price when High up the last Year we we stay hope, but finally we save some money and we are heading to Colorado for the summer to visit Family.. Im so Excited not just for me but for the kids.. Good look to the winners...
Normally we go to Alaska but new grandbaby just arrived so Grammy saus she is NOT budging! But we are doing a little 3 day mini vacation to Vegas in August. Being with my delicious grandbabies is a vacation for me! Hope everyone has a GREAT summer (or winter) wherever it takes them......
This summer, I am traveling to So. Cal. for a 70 year reunion of a music camp I attended as a camper, then counselor, then cook, then camp nurse. I am so anxious to see some long-time friends that I haven't been able to see in person for a long, long time and to reconnect with others that I have lost contact with over the years.
I think I am the ONLY 55 year old person that has never seen Yellowstone Park. Our daughter moved to Bozeman, MT so Yellowstone is only an hour away. Ive seen the park in National Geographic and on TV since I was a small child, so this will be a great time!
Suz from Minnesota
Sooz07 at aol dot com
Well, we moved to Ohio from New York 4 years ago, so seeing family can be difficult...but this May, at age 45 I graduated college, so in the beginning of June my mom took me on my very first cruise! My dad and his wife visited us in New York for father's day weekend, and In July, we are traveling to Michigan to celebrate my father-in-laws 70th birthday! So, while it may not be exotic, or far away, we are spending our summer with the ones we love...our family!
Our family will be home bodies this summer. However, we will venture to our back yard for some crazy crafting: jackson polluck painting, crazy construction, making floats with hot wheel cars, toilet paper tubes for marble ramps, giant weaving (on snow fence)!! I have two little boys (and a ton of friends) that need entertaining!! Thanks.
I had the best vacation ever! My oldest son went on a mission trip for church, the same week my husband and youngest son went to scout camp. My vacation? I stayed home and enjoyed the peace and quiet! It was WONDERFUL!
I will be going "home" to Washington to visit family, and the lake!
We live in FLorida so this year we decieded to stay home for the summer and play tourist and get season passes for places here in our area and enjoy all the tourist spots here at home. It is so fun to just go to the waterpark everyday and just hang with my daughter. Thank you so much for the chance to win
Celeste
celeste@touchedbyabutterfly.com
We tend to like to vacation in the off season so we did our beachtime early in april and will do our Disney time in september! In the meantime, we do a lot of trips to the zoo and aquariums because my daughter is in love with animals and dolphins! We also do nature walks and hikes and truly enjoy our surroundings in our resident state. It's fun to just have a mid-summer stay-cation!
I am so lucky and thankful this summer. I have already been on a week long trip to Riviera Maya for a friend's wedding. Plenty of pictures taken to scrapbook. I also am going to Nashville TN later this summer for a scrapbook convention. I went to one last year close to home and enjoyed it so much that I saved money and wanted to make a vacation out of it this year. :)
We had a fabuzal of a trip to Disney World. It included dinner with the princesses and fireworks! It was great to spend time together.
Very little money to do much this summer. But we had a wonderful vacation as a family in 2009. We live in Ohio and spent the entire week taking one tank trips. One day was spent in Amish town. Another we went to Cleveland and went from one cool place to another. The best one was going to Sweeties Candies. It is a store that is nothing but candy. My kids were ages 11, 9 and 8. As a surprise, when we got there my husband and I told them.."the sky is the limit.. anything you want!" They were litterally 3 kids in a candy store. They spent over $100 and had a blast. I have so many pictures to scrapbook, and so many ideas.. I want to make it perfect. Title will be "Happy as 3 kids in a candy store."
This summer we are spending our vacation at our camp in the mountains. It is nice to get away for 9 days and not have a set schedule. Our days will be spent at the river swimming and fishing and evenings sitting around the campfire. A bonus for me is that we are about 10 miles from the closest town and they have a scrapbook store!
Thank you for the opportunity of winning an awesome goodie bag!
Sharon
shareeduff@aol.com
Well since I am retired I don't have a lot of money for vacations. Hope to spend time with my family and maybe spend some time at the beach. Looking forward to a mini-trip with my church's senior adult group though. My dream vacation has always been a trip to Hawaii, maybe one day. Loved the cruises I have taken to eastern and western carribean!! :)
This summer is going to be great!! My son and I are going to Tampa, FL for a couple days along with my parents to watch the New York Yankees and Tampa Rays play. My son loves to play baseball and the New York Yankees. Then in August before he has to go back to school we are heading to Destin, FL for a week to enjoy the surf and sun. Our beach trip is a family affair, my husband, my son, my mom and her husband, my brother and his wife and myself will all be there. This will give us time to scrap together and hopefully have each of us a scrapbook of our trip before we leave. This will be an awesome summer!!!! Hope everyone else does too.
We just got home from a Disneyland vacation. It was PERFECT!!!! We look forward to lots of swimming the rest of the summer at home. Hugs- glora
Some fun vacations posted by everyone.
Our summer vacation will be leaving sunny California and travel to even warmer Arizona on a road trip. Stopping in Las Vegas for a couple of days.
Leaving in less than three weeks for Russia: St. Petersburg, Novograd, Moscow.
We will be going to Orlando in August to stay at our time share - no parks this time, just relaxing in the pool! We also will go camping several weekends as well as go to NC to see family. The rest of the time, we will be traveling to the swim club!!
This summer we plan to go camping near the outer banks NC and to our regular campgrounds in Gettysburg PA
summer of 2011 will consist of lots of family time, I will taking a trip up to CT in july with my stepdaughter for 2 weeks. During this time we will go to family parties, hang out with my niece and nephews as well as visit some sites that are in driving distances. All while ensuring i am taking pictures to be able to scrap later on. Once this trip is over my niece will be coming back to FL with us, where we will go to Busch gardens and other fun things.
Family time is a wonderful summer trip!!
This summer after my son gets out of Scout camp we are traveling from Fort Dix, NJ to Destin Florida to meet my Dad & Brother and fish a few days. Then back to their house in North Mississippi. Hoping to stop over for a day in Gatlinburg TN on our drive back to New Jersey. It will be our first vacation since my husband and I were married 4 years ago. Hope he gets leave!!!!
Wish we could, but not this summer,HOWEVER, our oldest son has spent the last month with his grandparents. He has had the best month, and so have my parents! They
've been working around the property, on the barn and the boat together! It's been so good for him and my dad!
We are planning a "staycation" for the most part. There are tons of things to do in the Norfolk area of Virginia....Busch Gardens, Water Country, Williamsburg. Hard to choose just a few things. We will also head to the Asheville, NC area to see my wonderful M-I-L. I am also working on my crafting as much as possible. I can't think of anything better!
After starting the summer with a move from Colorado to Texas, we are pretty travel weary (long car trip travel that is). So, the rest of our free-time and vacation-time this summer will be spend on short day trips exploring our new home! Howdy Texas!!
I have an awesome cruise planned for Sept. to Canada and New England. I've already scheduled my Lobster bake, so I just can't wait to go see this part of the country that I've never seen and then get to come home and scrapbook it!! I'd love to win.
We are going to Cape Cod for a week to (hopefully) enjoy the sun! We fish for stripers from the jetty by the canal, mini golf, walk the beach and go shopping.
Since I spent my "vacation" money on a Scrapbox...I guess I'll be scrapbooking...and trying to get organized..lol. Do scrapbookers EVER get totally organized???
Just a few long weekend trips for us (we take our vacations during the school time off like Spring Break and Fall Break). Maybe just an amusement park and a nearby lake beach for us.
Last year we purchased a nice Lance camper, and we are planning a two weeks camping tour with it.
We are thinking a longer trip at the Oregon coast, and a shorter visit to the Okanagen Valley in BC.
We love camping and I think it's a great opportunity the family to be together without any pressure from travel or program schedules.
Well just 2 weeks ago my husband took me and our 16 month old daughter to Sea World, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park & DISNEYLAND!!! It was our first time going to all but Disneyland and our daughters first time at any of them.. she had a blast! Since Im 27 weeks pregnant with our 2nd baby (another girl) it will be the only trip we take this summer. Thanks for the chance to win!!! :)
-jamie
babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com
My 2 oldest kids are going to Las Vegas with their grandparents for a week, then my husband are taking all four of our kids to Utah to visit family and do touristy stuff!
We are going to take the kids and do a couple long weekends this year. Maybe a weekend enjoying the museums and Navy Pier in Chicago and another weekend enjoying St. Louis and the zoo and the arch. I'm really looking forward to some family fun time.
SCOTLAND! SCOTLAND!! SCOTLAND!!!
Can you tell I'm excited
Well, since my daughter & her family moved to WA state, we vacation there so we can play "catch up" with 3 of our grandkids. We took the opportunity to take our other 2 grandkids with us this time so it made it really fun to see all FIVE grands together again for 3 wks of the summer!!! Scrapbook turned out AWESOME!!!! Lots of memories ...
Summer is always a busy time for us so we usually do our travel in the spring as we live where the snow gets deep and the cold stays too long. Although we do have plans for the latter part of July. These plans include a trip to the Lake Superior shore (Duluth area) to check out Glensheen Mansion, Split Rock Lighthouse as well as Grand Portage area. Living in MN all my life, it's about time we see what the state has to offer. This is the year!!!
Since we live in the most beautiful place on Earth, I am spending most of the summer at home in the Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada!! My girls will be here in July from Toronto and Winnipeg and we may take a quick trip to Spokane to visit their college friends (and shop....). The rest of the time will enjoy the lakes and mountains and relax on my 3 weeks off!
Since my daughter moved to WA state w/ 3 of our grandkids, we took the other 2 grandkids to visit them for 3 wks! It was an AWESOME time together and lots of memories/photo opportunities with all of us together again. Activities included visits to the beach, crabbing, bbq's, movie nights, campin' out, antiquing, even squeezed some late scrappin' nights in. lol I scrapbooked the album already and it is AWESOME!!!
Starting July 1st, I am on vacation for 18 days. We're going camping in PEI for lots of beach and waterslide fun!
This summer our vacation will be a trip to Gettysburg to drop my daughter off at collge for the first time!
I am actually planning a vacation to stay at the Sandpiper Beach Resort in Panama city, Fl.
well we HAD plans to visit family up in NJ, but that kinda fell through...so I guess the only trip we will be taking is from our beds to the couch! nah only kidding, I guess we are just going to take overnighters and day trips around our area of NC/SC... if anyone knows of a nice hotel in the Passaic county/Bergen county in NJ let me know.
It has been a busy spring / summer so far, we have been to the beach twice, I have been to Sedona Arizona and visited the grand canyon in a plane tour and a helicopter plus took a pink jeep tour all around the Arizona canyons and got to eat on the rim got some great photos to scrap so far this year cant wait til the next one in august going to smith mnt lake with friends.
We are going to Dallas next week and then, hopefully, to the beach at the end of July.
Taking the kids camping next week with my sister and her husband at Yosemite Lakes. Should be fun and much cooler even though its not too far away from home. Can't wait!
The military moved us to Eielson AFB, AK in March so we've been busy "vacationing" in our new home state. We made the drive from OKC to Alaska via the Al-Can Highway which is an experience in itself. We snapped pics of bison, moose and elk. We made a trip to Anchorage to take a day cruise in Prince William Sound where we saw otters, seals and bears (oh, my!) hanging out. We've been all over Fairbanks and North Pole. (By the way, North Pole IS real and Santa is awesome and available to visit with at The Santa Claus House) We went to Chena Hot Springs and visited the Ice Museum where we learned how the artist in residence makes gorgeous spheres of ice with delicate carvings inside. This has been the best "staycation" we've ever had!!!
We may be driving from Minnesota to Texas to visit family. Otherwise short trips up the north shore of Lake Superior in our camper.
Going to a local amusement park and science center this summer!
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This summer will be spent up north. My husband and my son have both started jobs in northern Alberta. Love the heat and the lakes..
This year I am staying home all summer, I have my 11 year old nephew coming to stay with us for 3 weeks and he is crafty so we will be doing lots crafts and local fun stuff! Thanks for the opportunity!
We traveled to Orlando. 6 parks in 6 days! Wow, were we tired. Our 2 1/2 year was a trooper. Our 11 year year old was worn out! It was a great time. Still going to hit Myrtle Beach before summer is over! I really need to sit down and get scrappin!
We are excited to take our new baby to meet two of her great grandpa's this summer! She is one lucky little girl to have 1 great grandma, 3 great grandpa's and 1 great great grandpa still alive and excited to spend time with her. She is the 1st grand child on both sides so we will be making lots of trips to see everyone. It will also be fun to experience all her firsts!
In August we are going to see Cirque du Soliel in Toronto. We try to do this with every new show. Love Toronto!!!
Sadly I have no summer vacationing plans...but I am hoping to go on a great 15 year anniversary trip in October!
My summer vacation began with a wonderful week of camping in Oklahome with 180 teenage girls. We camped in tents with 102 degree heat wave, all survivied, well a few managed to visit the local ER but quickly recovered and returned to camp activities. We had some awesome crafts; made journals with cute cardstock and compostion books, survivor bracelets out of paracord, and stamped washer necklaces. We learned to build fires and put them out, cooked muffins and scrambled eggs in orange peels, the dutch oven cooking was better I have to admit - the best part of the week was the relaxing in the lake. I can't wait for next year.
We don't havr any plan as of yet. I have had a stroke and we g=haven't ventuered very far from home yet. Maybe just a quik trip to Kansas City to see our grandkids.
We don't have any plans as of yet. I have had stroke so we haven't ventured far from home.
OOh I am so excited about taking our summer trip then scrapbooking our summer trip! Me and my hubbs will be going to Branson Missouri to mark off another well known musical town! So excited!
Off to England and Scotland this summer. My son and a group of friends are going over for soccer training! I HAVE to tag along...one thing will be off my bucket list!!!
We will be going to Branson Missouri to check off one of our musical towns vacation list. I love music and love traveling to areas that are known for it. That is why I live in the music capital of the world.
Off to England and Scotland. My son and teammates are going over for soccer training. OF COURSE, I MUST chaparone! One thing off my bucket list! Cannot wait.
Hmmm...we are trying to plan a vacation trip to San Diego, Ca. I want to take my 5 yr old to sea world and we want to go to the beach!!!!
wish us luck! lol
~Heidi Brawley
Well our summer vacation consist of several mini vacations. We go camping on the weekends as often as we can. I hope we get to enjoy ourselves again this year.
I traveled to TN and AL; I spend 4 days in Dunlap and Crossville visiting friends I hadn't seen in quite awhile. I also spent 10 days visiting my brother and his family in Albertville. I had forgotten how hot and muggy it got back there at this time of the year. I was amazed to see all the damage done by the Mar 2011 tornados.
My hubby and I are late winter and early fall vacationers, but we usually fit in a few weekends of camping during the summer. We took a cruise but not sure what our fall vacation will be. We usually stay within driving distance and stay for 3 or 4 days.
We are spending the long weekend of the 4th the way we usually do. My brother in law and his wife have everyone on both sides of the families come over and camp on their property out in the country during 4th of July weekend. They have a pool and a trampoline and a playhouse for the younger set when they aren't swimming. The adults get lots of relaxation time when we aren't playing cards or playing volleyball. At night we have bon fires with smores of course and on one night there is always fireworks. It's a great spending time and catching up with everyone you don't always see during the year.
in 2006 I went to Italy to visit family I had not seen in 19 years. I definitely was able to learn a lot more of the language and I am planning on going back next year and I can't wait!!!
Well, my husband is on strike, so our summer plans are all on hold until we have an income again! :)
My husband like to take pictures. We have a dolphin excursion planned and an adventure on Jekyll Island, Ga. I will be flying to Washington State to see my son who is in the military~more pictures to scrapbook :-)
Well, this summer is all about our kiddos and their summer plans! Our 12 year old son just got back from his first time at band camp. Our 15 year old daughter is presently on her very first mission trip with our church. In a couple of weeks, our youngest son will be going to church camp alone for the first time. Hoping to have lots of good pictures to put into albums for them to remember this summer by! My summer vacation is being spent in my craft room missing my babies!
Don't think we will travel far this summer as we have a big vacation planned for our anniversary in the fall. We will just be traveling to the pool this summer.
Hubby and I are planning to go down to B.C and check out the prices of a new Cndo to retire in, just waiting for my healt to improve a bit, so I can travel. It has been a very long time since I had a good day, but hopefully soon.
No true trip vacations this year but taking time off to spend with my husband, dogs and son are definitely on my agenda! Can't wait for some r & r. :)
I am going to swim with the whale sharks at holbox, Mexico.
We went to Orlando in May for our family vacation before it got to hot. We went to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure.
My kids only get 6 weeks of summer, but we've got a trip planned to visit with the grandparents for a week. Lots of fun stuff planned! Thanks for another fun contest!
We're planning on taking a trip to Branson later in the summer. We've never been so looking forward to seeing some of the shows!
My husband is going on a week long fishing trip in Canada tomorrow. I'm hoping to get to the Black Hills sometime later this summer.
Not sure about this summer yet but Disneyland was great. Maybe Disneyworld.
This Summer I'm really hoping we can do over last summer. Every vacation we had planned we either had to cut short, or come off the end of it for a funeral/illnesss. We lost so many loved ones, and packing up and getting away was starting to scare everyone. Hopefully in another couple of weeks, we can head upnorth for a much needed vacation with only the beach and swimming to occupy our family.
This summer with my frndz i went to MURREE... that is a hilly area in PAKISTAN...
then we went to AYUBIA...itz on more height than murree... it was so cold there and i enjoyed alot with all my friends... it was so much fun...i did lots of shopping for all the family members...
then we went to ISLAMABAD our country's capital... there we went to FAISAL MOSQUE...did lunch in BLUE AREA.. went to LAKE VIEW... the whole tour was awesome... gathered so many memories for the whole life
We will be going to Toledo to see out oldest daughter and taking our cricut along so we can have mother, daguhters scrapping time. We will head over to Father in laws who lives in Pioneer OH. We see everyone and have a great time scrapping also.
We will be travelling from Ontario, Canada to Mercer, Pennsylvannia next weekend for 5 days. We have a 5th wheel trailer so will be staying at a campground. Looking forward to this as we weren't able to get out in the trailer this past year. Just have been soo busy with many things. Look forward to a break....
Each summer we travel from our winter home in AZ to our summer home in IL, where I get more time to play with my scrapbooking & cardmaking toys!
My daughters, grand daughters and a couple of Friends
had a Tea for the women of a very impoverished neighborhood. We simple crafts, did hair cuts, manicures with special nail painting. About 20 women and their daughters came. We all had a wonderful time and they are excited about the next Tea, which we will be having very soon.
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