My secret sent let me know he sent the packages and its gonna come from Amazon.

About two days later, I see a sticker on my door from DHL and that I wasn't home and they needed a signature. So I signed the back of the note since I didn't know when they would come back and wrote to drop of it on the porch.

Next day I am coming in to the driveway after work and I see an Amazon box by the street next to my mail box. Usually delivery driver will drop boxes and packages on our porch rather then my mailbox since it is by the street. As I come closer I realized what had happened; DHL guy had dropped it in my mail box but the package stuck out and you could see it from the street some someone opened up the package and stole everthing inside and just threw it on our drive.

I message my secret santa and told him/her what happened and thanked them for sending me something and I told them that I will be changing my address on here to my work office where I know it won't be stolen.

S/he gets back to me and lets me know that they also sent something and hope it makes up for it!

A couple of days later I get package (on the porch this time!) and it turns out to be one of the best gifts ever and was totally not expecting it! Usually when you tell people you are student pilot or you love aviation they tend to get you something tacky or cliche like one those plywood airplanes you glue together or a postcard or poster of an airplane. My secret santa didn't go that route and got me an artificial horizon clock! An artificial horizon is an instrument in the airplane that tells you where your wings are relative to the horizon and is one of the most iconic of all the instruments.

This definitely ended my year in a good note, thank you secret santa!