First time taking part on this I had no idea what to expect.

I was anxiously awaiting for any information/mail from reddit gifts, and occasionally having a glance during work hours, until some days ago I got a tracking number! Yay! There was something coming my way and from another country! But what could it be? Would my Secret Santa find something awesome and/or that I really needed?

Anxiety started to kick in and the poor tracking website was getting hammered with requests: - where is it now? (5min later) and now? And now? Is it there yet?

It took a couple of days more, but finally it had arrived at my place. Problem was, the time was still 12:30 and I had to work until 18h...

More doubts, what is it? Must be a box since it was signed-for. Wait, it could be an envelope too. Will it be something from their country? Will it be funny? Will it be gasp a disappointment?

The damned clock didn't seem to move at all. The minutes dragged and dragged and dragged.

18h. Finally! It was time to get home. I got there as fast as I (legally) could. I ran straight to the table and there it was, a small, brown box from my Santa. The excitement was such that I completely forgot to take a picture of it. Inside were 3 packages and a small, squared red envelope.

I felt like a small kid at Christmas again. I couldn't stop smiling even before I knew what were the gifts. Fortunately, I remembered to grab the camera and register the neat job my Santa did with the packing. Only then did I start to unwrap everything.

First, the smallest package. A Lenspen! It was like Santa read my mind! I had one for quite sometime now, and I always travel with it. Since it was getting old, I was on the verge of getting a new one, but my Santa took cafe of that.

Well, even if it was just this, I would be VERY happy, but my Santa was not even close to finishing.

Next, the squarish one. Took the wrap off and voilá! A Lens Mug! :D I'm not much of a coffee guy, but I sure do like my tea. This being the aluminum version with lid made it even better.

At this time I thought it couldn't get better, but it did!

The final package was an AWESOME tshirt in blue saying "I shoot people" and with a vintage camera (which looks quite similar to an Yashica Electro 35...) and exactly my size.

The envelope was still missing. Inside my Santa put a nice Christmas Wishes card and he even wrote "Merry Christmas" on my native language, Portuguese!

Instead of taking pictures of the single items, I got my lights, tripods and other stuff ready and shoot myself with all of them :D

Thanks again Santa for all the presents! They were really, REALLY great! Hope you are at least as happy as I am with mine!

Feliz Natal