I was out in the garage sweating my ass off and working on my broken car when I noticed the mail lady getting out of her truck at the end of my driveway. This can only mean one thing: a package for me! From several feet away I could see a reddit alien's head poking out from under a customs label. Aww yeah!

I snatched the package from her, said a quick thanks, then retreated to the air conditioned house to tear open the box. When I got inside I looked closer at the customs label. Canada is where it came from and I saw on the customs declaration it said clothing and chocolates.

Oh shit, chocolate! This is going to be a slaughter when I open it. Today in Austin it's 105F, or 41C for those unenlightened to our backwards USAian ways. The mail trucks down here do not have air conditioning so are actually rolling metal ovens that cook everything inside. I was terrified to actually open it afraid of what would be found.

I opened the box and first off noticed a smell not unlike chocolate milk. On top of the pile I found a picture of a cat wearing a Peter Pan(I think) outfit. Below that was a very nice handwritten note describing the gifts.

Beneath the note was a hand painted t-shirt illustrating 'Actions are louder than words'. I'm a huge fan of making my own shirts so I'll wear it with pride.

Under that is where I found the carnage. A pile of melted Candian Smarties, which are nothing like our American Smarties. A package of 'Sweet Georgia Browns' melted into a pile of goo. And saddest of all a Kinder Surprise. These are 'illegal' in the States and I've never had one. I kind of fluffed it up for the picture but it was flattened on one side. All the chocolate went into the fridge to harden back up and will be tasty, I'm sure. It just won't have the same shape it had when it left Canada. :) Luckily, not a bit of the chocolate leaked so all was well.

Below that I found a Canada hat in bright red. It now sits proudly atop the life-sized zombie bust in my office, Ms. Daisy.

Lastly, there was another amazing hand painted shirt proclaiming Arbitrary Day 2013 below a reddit alien. So much work and time went into it.

I'm honored to be pickletoez's giftee.

Thank you so very much!