GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: School's Out ... Now What?

Hey there my decoding denizens of the interwebs. Back to find out the solution of the puzzle or to find out who walked away with the coveted $50.00 ThinkGeek Gift Certificate? Well I'm gonna answer that question ...right now: the winner of this weeks contest is Brian Murray. Who correctly solved the puzzle below ....

PUZZLE:

Well, that time of the year is here: Most kids are out of school already, or will be this week. Our puzzle deals with one little guy named Nicholas S. Algorithm, NSA .. get it . He has no idea what his parents have planned. His parents, being the fun-loving geeky types, decided not to tell him but to leave him a note instead. The message is written below ...

Dear Nicky,

I know you were wondering what we planned for your summer. Of course it would be easier to ask me but your dad and I thought this would be more fun. Good luck, Nicky, and remember today is the 27th, and if you add the digits together you get 9, which is how old you are.

Love, Mom

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Solution:
There were two hints in the puzzle. Ask Me which sounds a lot like ASCII and the number 9. If you decoded the QR-Code you get the hint ASCII and 9. The message was encoded using a shift cipher with a value of 9 and then encoded using ASCII. So what was it? The opening lines to the *Phineas and Ferb *theme song followed by the answer to the burning question what will Nicholas do for

there's 104 days of summer vacation
and school comes along just to end it
so the annual problem for your generation
is finding a good way to spend it
that's why your going to cryptography camp

Yes, there was a grammatical error in the message: "your" should have been "you're" -- an error my excellent editors would have caught had it not been encoded. Congratulations again to Brian for winning this weeks $50.00 ThinkGeek Gift Certificate. For the rest of you I have one more code. This code GEEKDAD72JL will get you $10 off your next $50.00 ThinkGeek order. So go buy stuff while you're waiting for Gareth to return on Monday with another devious way to twist your brain.