N.B. girl gets her ‘lucky rock’ back after it travels 11,000 miles on 4 flights | 24CA News

A New Brunswick lady says she thought her “lucky rock” was gone perpetually after leaving it on a flight again dwelling from B.C.

But after travelling hundreds of miles backwards and forwards, the rock made its method again to 11-year-old Georgia LeMasurier in Fredericton. And, it turned out to be a beneficial one.

LeMasurier acquired the “rock” at a crystal store in British Columbia, mid-drive dwelling from the airport along with her dad and grandmother.

“The thing that caught my eye is the bunch of colourful rocks,” LeMasurier mentioned.

The lady had lately picked up rock tumbling as a pastime after watching on-line video tutorials, so she noticed a chance on the Vancouver crystal store. LeMasurier left with a bag full, however one orange-coloured rock stood out.

“When we got it, we started to tumble them,” she mentioned.

“This one had a bunch of holes, but all the others just holes broke apart, but not this one. And then it turned into my lucky rock.”

She carried it round along with her all over the place she went, together with her journey again to the Maritimes. Mid-flight, LeMasurier took the rock out to carry on to it, fell asleep and forgot about it when she woke as much as deplane in Halifax.

Ironically, the day she misplaced her “lucky rock” was on Friday the thirteenth (of January).

The aircraft she took to Halifax had already departed for London, U.Okay., when the household got here again to the airport to search for it.

“I went all around the airport asking people couldn’t find it. I thought I’d never see it again.

“I might have cried a bit,” she mentioned with a smile.

Her mother Erica Henderson filed a misplaced merchandise report.

“I thought, ‘This is the silliest thing ever,’ but it’s my daughter’s lucky rock,” Henderson mentioned.

On Sunday, Jan. 21, she obtained a cellphone name and check from a Nova Scotia quantity and it turned out to be an Air Canada worker.

“She said, ‘Did you daughter lose a rock?’ I said, ‘yes,’ and she sent me a picture,’” Henderson mentioned.

“I was just flabbergasted.”

Georgia was nonetheless asleep on the time, so Henderson wished to get all of the details earlier than waking her up with the great news.

“So the rock had gone from Vancouver to Halifax, to England, to Toronto, and then came back to Halifax,” Henderson mentioned she discovered from the Air Canada worker, which works out to greater than 11,000 miles within the air.

“The man who found it, he was cleaning the plane, saw this little rock and stuck it in his pocket.

“At some point, he pulled it out of his pocket and thought, ‘Wow, this is pretty cool.’ He called up his friend who’s a geologist, … and the geologist (said), ‘That’s not a rock, that’s a piece of fossilized amber.’”

The International Colored Gemstone Association says amber, which is golden-coloured fossilized pine tree resin, is often about 25 to 50 million years previous, however it may be a lot older.

It’s “ancient and valuable, like an antique from history,” mentioned the web site.

Henderson was in awe when she discovered what Georgia’s “lucky rock” actually was, as she herself has by no means seen it earlier than.

“This is unbelievable, Henderson said. “Who puts in a lost item report for a rock? And then, who finds a rock and goes, ‘Oh, this must be something,’ you know?”

According to the mother, Air Canada mentioned they’d ship it to their Fredericton dwelling with FedEx, so she instantly went to wake her daughter up. She recorded the shock.

Georgia mentioned she all the time knew her “lucky rock” was totally different from the others.

“I knew it was special from the beginning, but I never knew it was amber,” LeMasurier mentioned.

She mentioned it was good to know somebody made an effort to convey her rock again.

“I felt really happy and that there was still some really good people in the world, because it’s been going downhill quite a bit,” the 11-year-old joked.

As a mother, Henderson was additionally grateful.

“I felt so thankful for the man who picked it up, and then whoever got it back to the Halifax Airport. … It went through it a lot of hands to get back to where it was,” she mentioned.

“It’s nice when good people do good things and they don’t get anything (in return).”

Though the household now has what could possibly be a beneficial little piece of historical past, LaMasurier nonetheless calls it her “lucky rock.”

“She doesn’t even want to get it appraised. It doesn’t matter to her what it costs,” Henderson mentioned.

“There’s no point of getting it appraised if it’s not going to be sold,” LaMasurier added.

Unless it was price a $50 million lottery, the lady mentioned, it would all the time be simply her fortunate rock.