So I got back to civilization today and sitting on my desk was a large box. It had my reddit username on the side, so it was either a package from my Secret Santa or a mailbomb.

On opening the box, the first thing I noticed was a huge bottle of soda. I love weird junk food, and this one particularly took the cake. It's something called "Urge" and the packaging suggests the drink comes "with carbos." Awesome. There's also something called naeringsinnhold in every 100mL, which sounds neat. I look forward to putting vodka in this.

I then pulled out nearly a kilogram of what I'm assuming is chocolate. It looks very tasty, and one of the packages is emblazoned with a drawing of a bright blue cow's head sticking out its tongue and shrieking. I knew those guys in Norway were really into black metal but that's still a pretty intense thing to put on your chocolate bars.

These were just the warm-up act, though: I then pulled out two packages consisting of a mega-fancy cookbook of traditional Norwegian recipes (reindeer meat and lutefisk, but also some really tasty-looking pastries and breads that I'm definitely going to try and make) and (drumroll please) SIX classic NES games and a Nintendo Zapper gun so I can play Duck Hunt properly.

This package was crazy - it was like a full Xmas in a box. I still can't believe how much effort my Secret Santa went to, and I'm going to have hours of fun playing Zelda, cooking traditional Norwegian cake, and trying to pronounce "kullsyreholdig leskedrikk." Thanks so much!