Good news!

The police found some of our stolen things! We had given up hope of finding anything, but decided to give it one last shot by posting a reward in the paper for information leading to the return of our "lost" laptop. Just a day after it appeared in the paper, we got a call from a woman who said she had seen some neighbor kids with a laptop. We weren't sure it was ours because she was just giving us information that she could have known from looking at us (that it belonged to a palagi woman), by reading our body language, or from the fact that the ad said it had our family photos on it. But we were hopeful and kept calling the police with all the information she gave us. She even went to the police station with us at one point to talk to them.

Yesterday the police asked me to come to the station to identify a laptop and iPod speaker dock. It was ours! Then this morning I got another call asking me to identify our cell phones - ours again! We hear that our iPod is being tracked down, but the rest of the stuff is probably long gone. I'm still hoping we can recover the cooler backpack because it was so convenient for hikes and trips to the beach, but I'm not crossing my fingers. I am crossing my fingers on the iPod though - it would be so nice to get that back!

Anyway, we are so glad that this woman came forward (yes, she got the reward), that people at my work were so helpful by calling the police to urge them to keep looking, and that the police were able to use the information we gave them to find some of the things that were taken.