I received a message from my santa a few weeks ago reassuring me that my shirt was in the mail, so I was super excited!! Then, a few days later they let me know that ANOTHER package was in the mail that would represent their stomping grounds. Since I did the international exchange this time, I was super excited!!

What could it be? Where could they be from??? (I don't know why I said "what could it be" since this is a T-shirt exchange. merp.)

So I waited patiently, just knowing that chancepuppy would come through. And they did!!! So today I was randomly home during lunch time, and someone knocked on the door. Usually, if I'm home alone I don't answer the doors (criminals and solicitors and sometimes well-meaning friends, you know) and I broke my rule and opened it.

It was the mailwoman!! She said I had to sign for a package, and I got super excited!

"Is it from another country??"

"Yes"

commence jumping up and down while mail lady gives me a weird look

So I ran inside and opened up the package from chancepuppy, and IT'S A SHIRT FROM OZ!!!

I just love it - it's such a pretty coral color, and I need more coral in my closet!! I love to surf, so Ripcurl is right up my alley. I surfed in Australia while I was there, and it was a blast! (besides the bluebottles, those sucked)

I'm so excited you were my santa chancepuppy, because Sydney holds such a special place in my heart! We lived in Croydon and went to a small private uni downtown. But we would go out on the weekends, lived at the beach, scoured the markets, and met such absolutely wonderful people while in Australia.

Plus, travel is so cheap, so we got to travel all over the east coast!! We got to go to Tasmania, New Zealand a couple times, Surfer's Paradise, Anzac Day in brisbane, and snorkling in the Great Barrier Reef!

Thank you so much for this shirt. It's a beautiful shirt, but brings back such amazing memories of some of the best 6 months of my life! I'm keeping an eye out for the other one and I'm hoping it didn't get lost :( But either way, thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and generosity chancepuppy!! You're the best!

Here's an album of some of my favorite moments in Australia, I wanted to share them with you so you would know how much I treasured my time in your beautiful city :)

Oh - and I will update when the second package comes!! Yay!

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So yesterday my second package came!! I didn't get to open it until this morning because I worked super late last night, and I was so excited that the t-shirts came so close together!!

I open it up, and what do I see?? My santa got me a Colonel Sanders Tee!!!

Just kidding. It's actually God!! Since God's a white man and all :P I absolutely love it! I was really surprised that my match went and read my profile, I did say that I do love Jesus and I am a Christian, so I think this tee-shirt is the bomb!! Also, the blue color is really beautiful and I think sets off nicely the white of his hair and resplendent beard :D

This cracked me up when I opened it, and I love it, so thank you so much for finding such a quirky, awesome tee shirt Chancepuppy!! You're the bomb!!