Sooooo my santa was the same person as my giftee this year! Now, that's quite a coincidence in itself, but she was my giftee last year and we've been keeping contact ever since and even met a couple of times!

Being matched to each other was both amazing and stressful at the same time. Great, because she's a great santa (which is proved by the package I received) and stressful, because I knew I could never top her.

Anyway, she was apparently dropping hints about me being her giftee, while I tried to keep it as much of a secret as possible, because I'm known to reveal what I'm getting to people... while I wanted to talk to her about secret santa stuff! It was all going fine and dandy up until I went to drop the package off. I needed her phone number for shipping so I asked for her for it on Redditgifts to keep up the charade and checked my phone for it so I wouldn't need to wait for a response. I put the phone in my pocket and of course I pocket dialed her. Apparently, she, being a detective of some kind put two and two together when she saw the time when the package was dropped off at the post office (actually a pakettiautomaatti, which is a Finnish "automatic" package sending service which I won't explain any further here).

Now, onto the gift itself:

I was very impatient and just opened everything up before taking photos, thus the lack of pre-opening photos! First I opened up a green jasmine tea pack, which smells amazing. I had chinese for lunch a while back and the tea I drank there afterwards was lovely, so I had to ask her if she had any clue what it was and she thought it might've been jasmine tea and now that I've smelled this, I'm 100% certain it was jasmine tea. So yeey now I get to drink it at home! I've been trying to find a good jasmine green tea for a while now, but I've only found jasmine & chamomile tea, which was nothing like it.

Next up was 2 baggies of cat snacks for our cat! I included a photo of her helping with the wrapping when wrapping her gift last year, so I guess this is where the idea came from. My santa didn't know which flavor the cat would like, so she got two different kinds! I'm sure that the cat will love them both! My SO was really thankful for these, and our cat will be as well. She's not home until next week though, so we'll have to wait with giving these to her until then!

I went for the largest thing next, which was wrapped in huge bubble wrap. It was a craft beer bottle from Joensuu that hasn't reached me yet, so this is definitely something I couldn't have gotten myself (unless if I bought it in Joensuu). I'm surprised that the bottle didn't break, because I managed to drop the package twice on the way home... that was some damn good bubble wrap. I had to open it and have a taste and it's probably my favorite IPA so far, I'm not even kidding!

I decided to go for the smallest one next, which was a licorice puck from Kouvolan lakritsi, which isn't one of the largest candy producers in Finland, so it was special and I hadn't had it before! And goddamnit it was good. Didn't last longer than a few minutes though, haha.

The last wrapped gift was a Jon Snow Funko Pop figurine! My santa asked for my favorite GoT characters and Jon Snow was one. I really like the bloodied face version, Longclaw and the cloak are super cool. I've put him up next to my Vault Boy and Oberyn Martell figurines!

Last thing to open was a letter with a spoiler tag on it. I'm not gonna write it up here, because I feel like these letters are at least a bit personal. With my santa's permission, I posted the beginning of it though! The picture on the paper is of our WhatsApp conversation, where I predicted us getting matched together. You can start calling me a prophet from now on, thanks. BOW TO ME, PEASANTS!

All in all, this was my favorite gift so far, 10/10 would recommend Tiikerikani.

P.S. I'm really sorry about my inadequate gift ;__;