
Lost things can still be found with a little effort.
A six-year-old British boy recently lost his bag of stuffed toys when a shuttle bus brought him and his parents from the airport to a resort in Costa de Almeria, Spain.
Resort customer aides Martyna Kulaszewska and Christina Fischer went to work and coordinated with their airport counterparts, Enrique Juste Garcia and Angela Scott, to find the missing toys. They learned that the bag of teddies belonging to Oliver Simpson from Heywood, Manchester was left in the coach they rode to the resort, Travel Gossip reported.
The teddies were found and reunited with Oliver at the Almeria Airport as the family was departing from their vacation and returning to the United Kingdom, according to the blog site.
More challenging was the recovery of 9-year-old Valentina Dominguez's doll which was left on a plane when she and her parents were returning home to Plano, Texas from their holiday in Bali.
The girl's parents posted a message on their Facebook, asking for help to find their daughter's doll named Beatrice.
A WFAA-TV report said American Airlines pilot James Danen of Dallas-Fort Worth read the post and took the initiative to look for the missing doll.
Dominguez's doll was last seen when the family was on their Texas-bound plane in Tokyo for a stopover. Danen called Turkish Airlines' lost-and-found at Tokyo's Haneda Airport and located the missing doll, the New York Post reported.
On 21 August, three weeks after Beatrice had gone missing, the pilot — who lives just miles from the Dominguez family's residence — drove the doll over to their house and handed her to Valentina, according to NYP.
The girl told "Good Morning America" she was so happy and thankful to have her best friend back.
The pilot was just as glad to be of help and did not at all mind traveling 9,462 kilometers from Tokyo to Texas to reunite Valentina with Beatrice.