Message in a Gatorade Bottle

Ever since I started picking up trash along the Mississippi River I have been hoping to find a message in a bottle.  I found one today.  The bottle was resting on the little beach just north of the Hennepin Avenue Bridge.  (I also found my glove that I had dropped several weeks back.)   The message was from two 13 year old friends up in Blaine, MN who had placed the bottle in a creek near Ham Lake on April 21, 2007. That bottle spent a long time coming down Coon Creek before it got to the Mississippi. The bottle was filthy but still intact after 8 years in water.  The paper inside was completely dry although aged yellow in spots.  In their note, they tell me that they are the best of friends.  I hope that they are still the best of friends even though they are finished with high school and on to their own lives.  One of them says that the best song on the radio that year was It Don't Matter by Akon and the other thought the best song was Different Worlds by Bucky Covington.  I listened to both of those for the first time ten minutes ago. I hope you both are doing well in your lives and I'm glad that it was me that found your message.

PS....remember to recycle!