So, a little background is necessary to understand why this gift was the absolute best thing ever. EVER. When I was a little kid, my favorite stuffed animal was a Snuffleupagus that I had gotten on my family trip to Sesame Place. My best friend at the time and I used to play hide and seek with him - he would hide and we'd have to go looking (well, one of us would hide him and the other would look, obviously ... I'm not a lunatic). He was pretty good at it, but we always won.

Until one time he hid in the overgrown ivy behind my house and we never found him, even though we looked for hours. I never quite got over it, to be honest. I mean, I moved on with life and became a functioning adult, but every time my parents trimmed that ivy there was always a glimmer of hope.

Cut to about 20 years later. I got on a tangent when describing what types of stuffed animals I might like and mentioned this story. Well, guess what...