My secret santa spared no expense to send me a great travel themed gift. He sent it by the 19th, although a bit late, still managed to get to the frozen depths of Finland in a timely manner. The postage for the package was a whopping 57.75$. FIFTY SEVEN POINT SEVENTY FIVE DOLLARS. Thats huge. Just wanted to point that out.

Firstly the package came straight to my doorstep which was a pleasant surprise. Opening the package i saw a lot of packaging bubble thingies and a glass bottle. I read the shipping manifest which mentioned "olive oil". Why would he send me olive oil? Weird huh.

As it turns out my santa is a sneaky little guy and actually sent me some ales but marked it as olive oil so it wouldnt get stuck on customs. There was 4 different ales in the package. One Blanche De Chambly, one James Boag's premium lager, one Imperial and a bottle of Coopers' original pale ale. Im not that much of a beer guy but i will definitely taste each and every one of them. And maybe i'll even end up liking some of them? Who knows. Good thing that my dad likes these kinds of ales, so if i dont end up liking them, atleast someone will :)

As i searched the box more, i found a Book and a DVD. The book was Bill Bryson's "In a Sunburned Country". The book sounds awesome. Right when i saw it, the book looked like something i would read and seemed really interesting. I will definitely read it as i have some relatives living down under, so that helps too.

The DVD was Ewan McGregor's& Charley Boorman's "Long Way Round: The complete tv series". My first thought was something along the lines of: "Hey i remember reading about this on Reddit and wanting to see more. Well damn. now I definitely can." Actually i dont even have a disk drive installed on my PC at the moment. Or i do but its not plugged in as i haven't really needed it. So i will probably have to plug it in again so i can enjoy the adventures of Ewan and Charley.

As a first year secret santa i definitely gained a good impression of the good will of people and i will 100% do this again next year. So thanks to my secret santa and i hope you have a great year ahead of you :)