Take off!
This is Snowflake One. We just took off and are over Montreal already because we are doing SuperFast speed!! We put hands up like on a roller coaster when we took off.
This is Snowflake One. We just took off and are over Montreal already because we are doing SuperFast speed!! We put hands up like on a roller coaster when we took off.
We have to fill out arrival docs to get into the North Pole. They require lots of stamps from Santa’s elves.

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