Update: You nominated the best places to play hookey across Fairfax County, and now, three have moved on to the voting round of Patch's Readers' Choice 2012. 

Here's your chance to put your money (er — vote) where your mouth is. Cast a vote to help crown a winner. 

Voting opens July 23 and continues through 11:59 p.m. Aug. 17. Only one vote per user — tell your friends and family to log on to pick their favorite, too!

Original: Even if you’re well past high school, there’s something a little bit devilish about playing hooky. We all need the periodic mental health day to recharge and sometimes the weekends just aren’t quite enough.

So when you make up an excuse to get out of work, where do you spend the day? What’s the best place in Fairfax County to go when you’re faking sick?

We’ll keep accepting nominations through July 9. After that, nominations will be closed and we’ll start the voting, so make sure to get in your favorites now.

All you need to do to nominate a location is to add it in the comments below. If you already see the place you want to nominate, make sure to add your comment about why it should be included, because we may not be able to add all of them to our poll and we want to make sure the top ones make it into the poll.

Thanks for participating!

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