Ok so I was beginning to think my reddit secret Santa wasn't going to send me anything... the gift was marked as shipped on the 21st but there was no tracking number. It just came in today and I think my Santa wanted to build up the the suspense...

Let me go back a second and talk about Gencon and what it means to me. Here is a snip from my gaming blog:

"I get a certain pleasant feeling when I enter a game store. Looking at the shelves of games and books gives an almost childish sense of wonderment of all the fun and fantasy there. To this day I get this feeling and as an adult there is not much that gives me that unique sense of pleasure.

The dealer hall was a game store times a million.

Store booths crammed with merchandise and awesome displays fill our view. At the Privateer Press booth, a life sized warjack welcomed you to the store where we bought unreleased models (some of which didn’t come out until months later). The warstore’s booth was crammed with boxes and boxes of Games Workshop and other minis and people buying them. The Wyrd booth had their new line of Terraclips terrain on sale for the first time ever, and demos for their new game Puppet Wars. Also they had unreleased avatars for sale (we bought a TON of stuff from the wyrd store). We passed game demos for Dust Tactics and Dark Age where the company employees were demoing games with AMAZINGLY painted miniatures. Matthew and I actually had a Dark Age demo and almost bought some models. We went to the battlefoam booth and talked to the owner Romeo (a super nice guy). There was even an area for independent artists selling art. At some point I got lost and stumbled upon an area where kids were having epic battles with foam swords and other weapons (they were having a blast).

That sense of childish wonderment was overwhelming. I was a kid again, walking into my first game store. I don’t think I could have been happier."

Sorry for the wall of text, but needless to say, Gencon holds a very special place in my heart, not only for the childish sense of wonderment, but of the comradery of the trip. My closest friends and I whom I meet up with every week for gaming embarking on a road trip full of fun and crazy times. Gencon is very special to me.

So I get a tube on my front porch today. I am waiting for my wife to get ready to go out to dinner with some friends and I open it. I am thinking it is possibly from my Secret Santa but I am not sure. I open it and am blown away. My Santa took my Gencon photos from my blog and made an awesome poster sized collage!

This is an amazing gift and I want to give a shout out to my Santa they did an amazing job! (however there is no name so I don't know who to thank!). Please know that I plan on framing it and putting it in our gaming room so we can gaze on it every week. Merry Christmas to all!