My first Reddit Secret Santa, and I really hit the jackpot getting capecodnative! Thank you so much for the local gifts from Woods Hole, MA.

First off, the official Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute hat is simply awesome. How did you know that my NASA cap had become too worn and tattered to wear in public? The boat on this cap is going to see a lot of the Rocky Mountains come summer.

Next is the hand crafted mug that contains sediments from the Atlantic off of Namibia. This is the coolest mug ever! And it has a line of text on it referencing "Snowball Earth," a theory of Earth's history when ice & snow may have covered the whole Earth. It's science. It's art. It holds caffeine. (Triple threat).

Seriously, capecodenative, I'm over the moon with my gifts. Thank you so much! My kids, 7 & 9, immediately wanted to learn more about the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, so we headed to their website and watched a very cool video about the institute's work. (This is where Alvin the submarine lives! How cool is that?) So my kids watched the video and were in awe. Then they watched it again.

The perfect gifts from a most awesome Secret Santa! Thanks so much!