My secret santa went above and beyond. I'm still totally blown away!

My present arrived on Christmas, conveniently right after my husband and I had finished opening our presents. On the package there was a note that read: "You said you liked video games, I hope this helps". So I open the box and see a "GameMaxx hydrating game controller" and am just confused and intrigued as I read some of the box. I was still somewhat not fully awake, so at first I'm thinking "are people really using a 6 pound 12" x 6" game controller with a drinking tube?". So I open it and immediately one of the flaps say "Pranked you!", to my relief.

As I pulled out the wrapped presents, I laughed hard for a good 10 minutes, at least, as I truly believed there was some absurdly giant game controller in there with a fan and tube for to drink from. Before opening up the actual presents I read more of the box and saw more laughable description items, such as "true one touch channel selection, comes with handy 4x magnifying glass" and awesome reviews ("impossible to lose!", "8 pounds of thrilling action", "The biggest innovation in gaming controls since the joystick". Each thing I read just made me laugh more and more. I had all these other presents to open, but I was too amused by the box at first.

So after I get done laughing, I see 4 wrapped presents and 2 candy canes full of sugary delight.

I opened up the small one first and at was some New Zealand coins and an 1868 Russian coin! I was totally blown away! My Secret Santa must have looked through my comment history to see I collect foreign coins, so I was downright giddy about this, especially the 1868 Russian coin! That's sooooo awesome.

Then I opened up the other three presents and saw some Playstation 3 games, which is great because I don't have many games for it yet: Heavy rain, Bioshock infinite, and Dante's Inferno. I haven't played any of them, and they all look really fun! I'm particularly interested in Dante's Inferno as the Divine Comedy is like my favorite book/epic poem ever and something I study frequently, so I'm quite interested to see this game. The other two fun too. But all three look great to me.

So overall I was just blown away by how much effort my Secret Santa put into this, from the packaging and box (still laughing over it) to the actual presents. It's clear they put in some time seeing what my interests were (gaming, coins, Dante), and I'm just extremely delighted and grateful for all the wonderful gifts.

Mary a/k/a TheOpus: You're the best. Thank you so much!