What a wonderful experience from a truly amazing person! The 400 exchange could have been ANYTHING, and u/here2laugh figured I needed to learn something and couldn't pick just one 400... so She got me a whole bunch of 400s with a side sauce of karma. Thru our exchanges it came out that a random gift I had sent for an exchange over a year ago was one of the reason's she had gotten into the Santa biz. I always try to do good but to just get a random note like this out of the blue from the past is just humbling and amazing (and a little overwhelming, lol).

Anyways, leading up to the day, there were message exchanges and questions and she even gave me home work... She had me make sure i did some research and learned what the phrase "Towanda" from the movie 'Fried Green Tomatoes' meant. Then packages started coming in, but with instructions to not open them till She said go. (Yes, she's a little sadistic like that and just wanted to torture me with them sitting there staring at me.)

Finally the big day arrived and I was allowed to start opening:) Opening the first box, there were some beautifully decorated and hand written cards to guide me thru the opening adventure and get my 'Alton Brown' on. It was going to be Her "Paula Dean" meets my "mad scientist" in the kitchen and it was time to cook! Package after package of individually wrapped tools to get my cook on.

The total 400th exchange counts were: 400 nickles (to buy meat to grill)

400 sparkly things (little butterflys and a scepter pen)

400 chops (a set of beautiful knives to dice things with)

400 seconds (a timer to count them down)

400 grms of iron (a new skillet to grill things up in)

400 flips (spatchalas and spoons and burger flipping tongs)

400 recipes (spread over 2 books full of things to cook)

400 stitches (She HANDMADE an apron and chef's hat!!!!)

400 wipes (pot holders and towels, because cooking is supposed to be messy)

400 crafting supplies (for my warhammer models i paint)

400 smiles (that I was wearing from ear to ear while opening all this stuff)

Thank You u/here2laugh, you truly went above and beyond anything I would have ever thought of for this exchange. My tale and pictures of everything don't do near the justice to show how great a job and how wonderful this exchanged touched me. I can't begin to show you how special you made me feel and I'm in awe at how much effort and energy you put into this. Each of the 400 bits of this 400th exchange will be strongly remembered and cherished for a long time to come.