Alternative Christmas presents

At the beginning of November, Ze Mario - a friend from Portugal, gave me an idea of participating in boardgamegeek.com Christmas presents exchange. I had some doubts at first, coz I never liked this kind of events in my early school years. However, I realized that this time the participants won't be kids but grownups.
The rules of the exchange were simple: sign up by filling the application form, choose those countries from the list that you're willing ship your gifts to and wait patiently until the 14th of November to have your target assigned.

And so I became Secret Santa of one extremely friendly guy from Illinois, USA.
Right from the beginning, I kept on sending him funny-christmassy messages without revealing who I really was. I decided to order a game from his wish list at Amazon, which was a perfect solution to make the shipping procedure easier for me. In one of the messages, he told me that he is a huge zombie fan, so I also decided to send him a very cool Polish card game about zombies together with a Christmas card. Even though he got the main package before the 6th of December, another surprise arrived from Poland just before the Christmas Eve.
Meanwhile, I didn't hear from my Santa for over one week since the exchange begun. I thought I had reasons to worry. I couldn't be more wrong! My personal Secret Santa turned out to be very generous by picking awesome presents from my wish list.

This might sound corny: I didn't expect the giving part to be as fun as it turned out to be. Giving, can not only be as fun as receiving but even better!