Right from the start I knew that my secret santa was exceptional. The moment the redditgifts matching was done, I received extremely kind and well versed messages from him saying that he had great ideas. Knowing that I was about to leave on holidays, he even hurried to get everything shipped so I could get everything before leaving.

These last three weeks have been insanely busy for me, and last Monday I received an invitation from my local post office to pick a package there. I was unfortunately only able to retrieve this package today (Saturday), which made my week quite frustrating!

I believe my first words when seeing the package were something along the lines of "holy sh*t" as it was quite massive. I opened the package, read first the Christmas card and the beginning of an attached long letter. Seeing it started to describe the gifts, I stopped there and opened the 3 packages. It was cool seeing french greetings on the wrapping paper, from the another continent than mine!

The first gift I opened was a lego bike, appealing to my liking of motorcycles and legos... that my secret santa knew by tracking one of the interviews made of me!

The second gift was a box full of Canadian clothes to dress my small daughter from head to toes. I'll admit there were a few (very manly) tears, amplified by the fact that my little one is currently away with my wife, with me only being able to join them in 4 days.

Finally, the biggest gift was a robotic arm to assemble myself... I was speechless. My secret santa knew me very well! I surely am going to have some fun building it... and maybe tweaking it with some of the electronics components I have laying around!

I then got back to reading the letter my SS had written. It explained his thought process and made me wonder how long it must have taken him to prepare this package. Brown_Topher, you are really too kind. Thank you for everything, and I hope we may meet each other in the future.