This past Wednesday, Cat made a green smoothie and I made some steak for breakfast.  So far, it was a usual Wednesday.   I usually head to work around 10:30am at my Oakland location and finish around 7pm.  I was fairly busy around 6pm.  All of a sudden, I start getting messages from Cat.  Oddly, she was messaging me on google chat instead of the usual txt message.   She was telling me to call her phone because she couldn’t find it.  I get home around 7:30pm, and Cat is frantically looking for her phone.  After looking throughout our apartment, both cars, and even driving to Pharmaca where Cat was earlier that day we realize that the phone is lost.  We were thinking, it’s gone forever.

We both thought to ourselves: Find my iPhone App!  We quickly tried to figure out how to use it.  After 5 attempts to recover Cat’s icloud account password, I was able to login.  I clicked on the locate button, and it started searching.  I stared at the screen patiently.  After about 30 seconds, we see a dot pop up with all the details of where the phone is!  Oh my gosh, the phone is in Berkeley!

Not knowing what to do, I decide to ask for help.  Kind of like phoning a friend, I decide to ask facebook.  (You can see the chain below of all the help that I got.)

We soon decide to call the police.  The first response, “Did you file the phone as lost or stolen?” Thats why we called the police.  It wasn’t an emergency so we had to go online and fill out a report.  I did it as fast I could.  Once we submitted the report it says that it won’t be processed for another 5 business days.  That’s when, we both decide we need to take action, so we hop in our car and started heading towards the destination of the phone.  On the way we call the Berkeley police one more time, this time we had a police report number, so they were able to assist us.  We told them our plan to get the phone through Find my iphone and they were on board.  Three police officers rendezvoused with us at the address of the phone.  To our surprise we found the location to be a senior citizen residence.  We were slightly relieved.  All these thoughts started going through our minds.  (Hopefully, its just a senile elder that took the phone by mistake.  Worst case senario it could be a juvenile child that stole the phone and is hiding out here.)  Long story short we got the phone back.*

*Since our post on facebook everyone and their mom has been wondering what happened.  So when we arrived at the senior citizen residence the police asked us what we wanted to do.  We didn’t really know, so we showed them where the phone was on the map.  One officer decided to go solo and try to find the phone.  Then, one of the officers, Hunt had a brilliant idea and decided to have Cat log on into his iphone through Find My Iphone app.   That way he could just trigger the phone to make an alert, and they would just follow the sound.  By this time, all of the officers went looking for the phone.  This was about 9:45pm.  We kept waiting and waiting.  45 minutes had past.  We were a bit worried.  I kept checking on my phone, and all of sudden the location kept jumping around.  What’s going on?  Soon enough, we see a young male walk out of the building.  I was hoping he was gonna come out and give us Cat’s phone.  Unfortunately, he had no clue what was going on, he was just working there maintaining the facility.  Finally, one of the officers came out of the building.  He gave us a thumbs up!  We were kind of happy, but confused at the same time.  He told us they found the phone on the 3rd floor in the room of very senile man who apparently had a mid western accident.  The phone was found by the man near the post office near our house.  So we think Cat must of left it on the counter there and the man picked it up for some odd reason.  The officer told us that the man had no clue how to operate the phone, and that it just kept ringing and beeping, and he didn’t know what to do.  He must have been really senile.

So there it is.  The mystery of the missing phone.  Three officers, Find my iPhone, a Senior Citizen Home, and 28% battery life was all it took to save Cat’s phone.

This is just one of the many photos that were saved in Cat’s phone from our Minimoon.  Thank God! #salvationmountain