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Cool Off With Our Ice Cream Giveaway
If you’re a regular reader of our staff blog, then you already know July is National Ice Cream Month.
Since we can think of few better things to celebrate, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Carvel Ice Cream to give away some free ice cream to a few lucky readers.
There are two separate giveaways, and two ways to win. Here are the details:
1. We’ll be giving away a $25 Carvel gift certificate for a delicious ice cream cake on the Moon Travel Guides Facebook page. To enter to win, simply post in the comments section of our page and tell us your favorite ice cream flavor.
2. We also have five pairs of Carvel Be Our Guest cards (each pair is valued at $8 total) good for you and a friend to treat yourself to a scoop. To win, simply visit us on Twitter and send us a tweet using the hashtag #mooncarvel telling us your favorite ice cream flavor.
Only one entry per person is allowed and employees of the Perseus Books Group are not eligible to win. Winners will be announced later this week via Twitter, Facebook, and right here on the Moon Staff Blog.
Good luck—and a big thank you to our friends at Carvel!
Jen Rios-Burns
Online Marketing Manager
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Ice Cream Giveaway
Posted by garrettsambo on July 23, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Butter Pecan is my favorite flavor of ice cream. garrettsambo [at] aol [dot] com
Ice Cream
Posted by pandahugger on July 23, 2010 at 5:07 pm
I love blueberry cheesecake ice cream, or any cheesecake flavor. Delicious!
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I love chocolate chip the
Posted by anne1456 on July 21, 2010 at 5:07 am
I love chocolate chip the most.