Thank you to our unknown benefactor from Wales!

Our package included some mysterious Space Raiders, which were so light that at first we thought it was astronaut ice cream, but the note says that they are crisps/chips. Looking forward to opening these!

There is a package of "Welshcakes", which look yummy and which we plan to have for breakfast tomorrow, with butter and maple syrup. (And with the recommended steaming cup of tea, too.)

Lots of tantalizing chocolates: Wispa, Dairy Milk, Milky Way, and Chomp bars, plus the legendary Smarties we've heard so much about. They were the first thing we opened, and we each tried one, and had very different reactions. We tried to describe the taste to each other, and realized that the different colors are actually different flavors! We tasted a few more, and tried to match them up to the listed ingredients, but failed hopelessly. We're going to have to google to find a color-to-flavor mapping.

We're excited about the Cadbury chocolates: we tried some Cadbury chocolate covered cookies once in Ireland, and loved them, and when we were back in the states we bought what appeared to be the same thing -- and they weren't the same at all. The Cadbury from Ireland was waaay better than what we could get at home, so we're hoping for the same from the Welsh ones. We're also very curious to see how a Milky Way bar from Wales compares to one from the US -- we're going to go out and buy a local one and have a side-by-side taste test.

There are also some chocolate-covered marshmallow tea biscuits, which seem vaguely reminiscent of moon pies just by eyeball, although they feel lighter. Another experimental snack to look forward to :)

There's a roll of fruit pastilles that at first we thought we going to be hard candy, but the note describes them as gummies. The note also advised us which two flavors are the best, but rather then fighting over them as suggested, we've agreed that one of us will have the black one, and the other can have the red one (if there are indeed only one of each). We can be so diplomatic when circumstances call for it.

There's a roll of Polo mints that smell exactly like Canada mints, which we haven't had since we were kids. Actually the whole box smelled deliciously of these mints as soon as we opened it!

And last but not least, a packet of intriguingly-flavored toffees -- treacle, licorice, mint, and dairy. Licorice toffee? Who knew??

Thanks again, anonymous Welsh snack-sending student!