A LEGO spaceman minifigure has travelled nearly 150 miles from Guernsey to the Isles of Scilly, connecting two families.
A family in St Mary's in the Cornish Isles of Scilly in the UK found a bottle with a LEGO spaceman inside, as well as drawings and a letter with a phone number. When parents Matt and Rhiannon and daughters Chloe and Eliza rang the number, they found out it had been sent sailing across the ocean by six-year-old Leo and his sister Célene in Guernsey, after a 40-day journey travelling nearly 150 miles.
Leo's father Laurent took the call and said he 'genuinely could not believe it' when he got the 'really nice phone call'. Leo and Célene sent two jars filled with messages and small toys into the sea on Saturday, March 29, hoping that they would travel and be found by someone else.
"We stuffed them and taped them up nice and tight and we went to the lighthouse in St Peter Port and tossed them into the sea," Laurent told the BBC. "We never expected to hear any news soon, that's for sure."
150 miles away and 40 days later, Matt said he and his family had been exploring Darrity's Hole on St Mary's coastline on May 8, when he spotted a jar on the shore covered in seaweed.
"At first I thought it had old paint in it or something like that but then I noticed the paper inside and I could see a little Lego man in there," he said.
Thankfully, the jar had started watertight, so the drawings and letters – including Laurent's phone number – were still legible. Following on from that first phone call, the two families later organised a video call so the children could chat.
"If you could bottle the look on all the children's faces here and over there, honestly, it'd sell," Matt said. "We've talked about things that get washed up all the time growing up on an island but then for something like that to come true… they were so excited."
It was a similarly exciting experience for Laurent, Leo, and Célene, with Laurent saying: "It's so much fun, it's very wholesome and a really fun way to get in touch with people in a physical way."
Featured image: The BBC
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