I received a message from my Santa on matching day, tentatively asking where I got my teas from normally because we just happen to live in the same city and she wanted to treat me to something I'd never had before! Now, this is not my first RG coincidence (I once had a Santa who I had been Santa for!), but I love when this kind of thing happens and it has amused me for days to think about!

Well, she also asked if it was okay to drop things off at my house, which I was cool with, and this morning, the first gift popped through my letterbox. I heard some other noises, but it turned out that the other gifts were too big to post through, so she came by a bit later with everything else. I am not a patient person and I opened the first one before the others came. =P Hence the picture with the unwrapped coffee!

The second delivery resulted in a Reddit Gifts first for me - meeting my Santa! I have to apologize for the quick conversation we had - as I said, I would have, in the spirit of this exchange, invited you in for tea, but I had to rush off to change for my fitness class! Again, I was so pleased we turned out to have some other things in common besides tea, too, discovered even in that short talk. =) It was lovely to meet you!

Now to the gifts: as you can see, I got a lovely Costa Rican coffee to start off with, and it smells beautiful. I can't wait to have it tomorrow for my morning coffee! The next three things are loose leaf teas: Cinnamon, Strawberry and Kiwi (I mentioned I like to have fruit or herbal teas at night!), and Winter Tea. A little confession: I ALMOST bought 'Winter Tea' from a similar place for myself. The only reason I didn't was that where I bought tea from was sold out of Winter Tea on that day! So amazingly, this beautiful tea still ended up in my kitchen and I'm so, so pleased! And actually, I originally thought it was from a tea place I know but I've been introduced to a new one via my Santa and I'm very intrigued to go seek it out and see their selection.

Since it was quite late by the time I got home from my class and eaten dinner, I went for the Strawberry and Kiwi first and it is delicious, so so nice (ignore the floaty bits, my tea strainer has a tendency to leak loose leaf!). Thank you so much. A wonderful present!