From day 1, Santa was on it sending me a beautiful heart warming message containing a bunch of invisible yellow flowers (my favourite colour).

Santa proposed something to keep me occupied on Reddit whilst I waited for my gift arrive, unfortunately I only really use Reddit gifts... I thought this would of disappointed Santa very much albeit they were so nice and practically told me off for thinking such a thing.

Noting I like to travel, Santa's next message asked me to list the places I had not traveled to within Australia, the next message asked me to choose out of specific destinations and the next message was a request to choose from dates... I replied to each of Santa's messages and noted with cheek that I thought I knew where Santa was going with these questions. Santa replied cheekily but ultimately preferred to leave the gift a surprise. I must admit as much as I love to travel I was a little anxious about the prospect of a stranger (albeit granted one of the nicest so far) booking travel on my behalf..

My gift was marked as sent. Santa then sent me a message with a subject line in all capitals 'DO NOT OPEN THIS MESSAGE UNTIL GIFT RECEIVED' needless to say the first thing I wanted to do was to open that message and it took all of my self restraint to maintain obedience.

Last night I opened my letter box to find what looked like a letter from a local hotel, addressed to me. Weird I thought, probably just some marketing cr*p.

I open it and to my complete surprise it is a gift voucher for a night's stay in a Queen River view room at a nice hotel here in Perth which I can choose from a variety of dates to stay - complete with a hotel credit and buffet breakfast!!!

Then practically another gift, as receiving my gift allowed me to then open the message I had been waiting so patiently to open! Inside a beautiful message from my lovely Santa saying how they wanted to give me some 'me time' time to relax and smile. :)

I am truly truly overwhelmed at the generosity and kindness of this Santa. You're an incredible human. I've never even thought of receiving anything like this kind of gift, not from family or friends let alone a Reddit Secret Santa, a stranger but one with such a beautiful heart.

Usually for my birthday, I 'run away alone to a foreign place' this year with this gift I feel like I'm actually content enough to stay here in my home town, my headspace is starting to calm down and maybe just maybe I don't need to 'escape' this year. I'm thinking I will use this voucher to treat myself to a luxurious, relaxing weekend at the hotel. This gift came at the perfect time.

Thank you so very much Santa, I truly hope you're return gift made you smile just as yours has certainly done for me.

xx