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Before I get on to these amazing baked veggie burgers, I have some exciting news to share: I’m going to America!
Well, it’s exciting for me… not so much for you. I’m just going on holiday, you can’t come (sorry). But I hope you’ll be excited on my behalf, anyway!
Our plans involve:
– partying it up at Mardi Gras (woop woop!)
– taking a boat ride across a swamp (if I don’t come back, I probably got eaten by an alligator)
– watching loads of live music and eating loads of amazing food
– seeing a show at the Grand Ole Opry (I’m a total closet country music fan)
– singing along to Les Mis and Wicked on Broadway (quietly…)
– seeing the Knicks play at Madison Square Garden (I think that’s…
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