Josie Law loves looking for seashells and shark teeth at the beach. But in May, the 11-year-old spotted something really special. She found a message in a bottle.
Josie and her family are from Howell, Michigan. They were on vacation on Anna Maria Island in Florida when the small bottle washed ashore. Inside were two paper birds and a handwritten message. A phone number and the date August 17, 2018, were written near the bottom.
Josie’s mom sent a text to the number. She was surprised to get a reply—from a 21-year-old woman in Hawaii! The woman and her younger brother had tossed the bottle into the Pacific Ocean about seven years ago.
“I can’t believe that they responded,” Josie says.