This is Travis' camcorder.
That he lost while downtown on this particular Saturday Afternoon.
We needed to take Adalynn downtown to experience her very first Festival of the Arts in downtown GR. Summer in Grand Rapids is flanked by 2 popular festivals. The beginning of the summer is marked by the Festival of the Arts, where people showcase their musical and artistic talents of all kinds while us untalented people meander around enjoying the atmosphere and gorging on food from fundraising food boothes. (at the end of the summer is Celebration on the Grand, but that's not pertinent to this story). It just so happened that Sarah and Josh had tix for a Rampage (arena football) game Sat night, so we arranged to meet up with them as well. They drove downtown and got a wicked-good parking spot right next to the arena on the street (fyi - FREE PARKING. way to go guys.)
So we walked, talked, and experienced. Adalynn stayed snug-as-a-bug in the sling and watched, fascinated, from her perch. As Travis went to take a picture, he found his camcorder bag empty. Oops. To say he wasn't happy is a HUGE understatement. He was convinced it was gone. That someone had picked it up, walked off with it, never to be seen again. And sure 'nough they had. He'd laid it down on a ledge near where Josh and Sarah parked, and it hadn't made it back into his bag.
So I started praying. And I prayed through the next week. I posted a "lost" ad on Craigslist.com. We monitored the "found" ad's on Craigslist and in the GR Press. And then I saw it. A simple "Found: Camera, downtown Grand Rapids." I told Travis, he called and asked if the camera happened to be a red panasonic camcorder. The wife said, "Let me have you talk to my husband", and the older gentleman on the other end of the line made him identify the camera. I picked it up the 17th.
Definately a miracle. A God Thing for SuRe!
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