My santa knew I would be visiting Russia for the first time next week, so they got me a lovely Ushanka (Russian hat). I already tried it out by wearing it during a game of ultimate frisbee in the snow and it kept my cheeks nice and warm.

It seemed there were some issues with the Amazon gifting process. Not only did it say the gift was from myself, a bunch of question marks showed up in the message. I'm assuming the question marks were cyrillic characters, as it would make sense if the first phrase was "удачи в России" (meaning "good luck in russia"). No idea what the second set of question marks might be though (4 letters and 10 letters), but it was a fun challenge to try anyway. Thanks, secret santa!