MIAMI-- Almost word for word Summer Smyth remembers what she wrote when she was seven and placed a message in a bottle. "If you're reading this I'm going to 2nd grade and my mom's phone number."
Smyth tossed the bottle into the ocean as her family was on a boat between South Florida and the Bahamas
"I didn't think it was going to go anywhere," she said.
"Low and behold two years later we get a phone call that it had rushed up on shore in Normandy, France," her mother Sherrie Smyth said.
Mom and dad are fascinated
"It's just shy of 5,000 miles. It's incredible and almost shocking," her father David Smyth said.
And Summer's letter wasn't the only message in the bottle. Her nanny had also written a note.
"We had a young nanny, who was a student at the University of Miami. The two of them collaborated and decided to do the notes in the bottle - when the bottle was found in France they called our former nanny who, yesterday reached out to me by text message that she had received a phone call from Normandy, France and that person who found it owned a campground," Sherrie Smyth said.
Since then Sherrie has been in touch with the owners of that campground on Facebook.
And she now has the back story.
"There was a woman at the facility who decided to take a run and as she was running along the beach, she actually found that bottle where they proceeded to break the glass, open it and read the letters," Sherrie said.
