The message in the bottle was found after 26 years

It was like a random note to himself almost three decades into the future.

A Canadian woman as a schoolgirl threw a bottle with a note into the lake, and 26 years later her daughter read it.

The New York Post writes about it.

Lettering in bottles was part of an assignment Mackenzie Van Eyck received in 1998 when she was in the fourth grade at St. John the Baptist in Bell River, Ontario. She was assigned to write about water quality in the Great Lakes and then put the note in a bottle and throw it into Lake St. Clair.

After that, Mackenzie probably forgot about the school project until this fall, when River Vandenberg, a kindergartner at the school, found an ale with a leaf on it while visiting the pond with her grandmother.

“I thought it was a card to kill the gravedigger or something,” said the kindergartner who…