June 2 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old Michigan girl vacationing with her family in Florida found a message in a bottle that had purportedly been thrown into the ocean 8 years earlier in Hawaii.
Hoqwell, Mich., resident Josie Law, 11, was on Florida's Anna Maria Island when she spotted the bottle in the surf.
"I was just walking, and the waves were coming up, and it was washing on shore," Law told WTSP-TV. "The wave went like a crash into each other and went back, so then I grabbed it really quickly and I showed my mom."
The bottle contained a small note, reading: "Hello, people who found this. You will be happy that you found this. Why? Because you will know me with this number."
Law's mother, Paris Hoisington sent a text message to the phone number included in the note.
