We don’t have words adequate enough to thank our amazing Santa for the gift she gave us for our snack exchange – truly. And what a story we have for you all – so settle in, cuz even though this is kinda long, this is one of the best reddit exchange stories ever!

Us kitties have been doing reddit exchanges for a while now, and since we have some dietary restrictions, we always sign up for the reddit snack exchanges and ask that snacks be sent to our humans rather than us. This particular exchange, we requested that our Santa find some snacks for our Mumma human as she has been going through a very hard time right now. A month ago today, she lost her grandfather, and they were very close, so the loss devastated her and our whole family. Us kitties and our daddy human hoped that the snack exchange would be a good way to lift her spirits a bit with some unexpected treats – but we never expected it to be THIS awesome.

As soon as our Santa(s) pulled our info, they wrote us a letter telling us that they were very sorry to hear about our loss and mentioned that they live very close by to us and asked if we would want to meet up in person for the exchange! They even offered to bake foods for the memorial service reception that the humans were having – that was so thoughtful and touching that a complete stranger would make such a kind offer to us in such a hard time. We immediately wrote back and agreed to meet the following week after the service was over and things settled down – though only Moo went to the meet up as our representative as he LOVES to travel and go for car rides, and the rest of us kitties do NOT.

After writing back and forth a few times, we realized that both our Santa and humans were in love with Paris and Parisian foods, and our Santa had actually LIVED in Paris for a while – and our Santa also had a few kitties who were local internet cats. This match up was nothing short of fate - seriously! It was like our Santa had been assigned to us by the universe itself in an attempt to cheer up our humans. We agreed on a place to meet and set a date – and then, the day before the big day, our humans suffered another loss when one of their childhood kitties, Yoda, passed away from kidney failure. Our super generous Santas wrote to us later that night to tell us that they had made a donation to their local charity that helps homeless kitties in our Grampa and Yoda’s names – again going well above and beyond for complete strangers. We were so touched.

And then – today arrived – the big meet up! We loaded up in the car and drove to the meeting place – and thank GOODNESS we left half an hour early because with all the recent storms here, four or five of the roads we needed to drive on were closed for clean-up and we kept getting detoured - and we got terribly, terribly lost. The directions on the GPS brought us into the middle of a forest (kinda creepy, we know) in the middle of pretty much nowhere – so the humans pulled over to the side of the road in a little dirt turnaround to text our Santa for help. And just as they finished texting… a car pulled over in the turnaround next to us, and the girl inside pulled out her phone and began texting too. And then – BEEP – we get a text back saying our Santa, too, was lost in the woods! How we both ended up lost in the same spot, we will never know – but we got out of the car and asked if she was looking for us – and she was! We decided to find a better meet-up place – and a cat friendly one at that – and off we went. Our Santa decided on a local café and went in to ask if Moo was allowed inside, and the kind owners let him in to sit at the corner table, and even came over to play with him for a while – so after a not so great start to the trip, things were starting to look up! Our Santa presented us with a HUGE basket of goodies that we later opened at home to discover it was full of AWESOME French goodies – all different varieties of truffles and even a truffle cake! And BOY can our Santa BAKE – our humans were all drooling over those and said those things were AMAZING! We truly can’t thank you enough for them – or all the ribbons and tissue paper that we got to play with. We love that stuff!

Moo and the humans stayed and chatted with our Santa for about an hour and a half and realized she had SO MUCH in common with our humans before we had to head home, and left that café with not only a basket of AMAZING treats, but an amazing new friend too. We were SO thrilled to meet such a caring, compassionate, and wonderful person and will definitely be keeping in touch!

Thanks SO MUCH guys – you truly brightened up our humans day and made her really smile for the first time in a long, long time – and that means the absolute WORLD to us.

XOXO Moo, Oink, Kwack, and Kluck