case in California

Sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been in California. Do you know what i was doing there? I bet you don't need three guesses. I was solving another case! You know How Mrs.Hopson was gone? Well, I found the ring, and we were so excited Mom decided to let me fly over to California where Mrs.Hopson was and deliver the ring straight to her all by myself! When I got there, Mrs.Hopson was so excited! She said i could stay with her until she returned here which would take about two more weeks. I couldn't believe I was going to stay! I didn't know I would, so all I packed was a pair of pajamas, and an extra set of clothes. So I got to go shopping! We went shopping right after I got there and then, BOOM! It happened. Someone was robbing the grocery store right across the street from where we were! I could not believe it! Luckily I was wearing my running shoes because I took off after him! I could see he had a car because he took out his keys. I saw which one he was eying and as soon as he unlocked the car, I jumped into the back seat, over the back seat, and into the trunk. I hid myself under a blanket and it was a good thing too. When he got in the car he threw the bag of money into the trunk and it landed right on top of me. It hurt! Then he takes off, I remove my blanket and look out the back window, careful that he doesn't see me and... Oh man! Sorry, I have to go to my grandma's. We're helping with something. Bye!

The ring is found

Ha ha! I found the ring! Yes! I should have known! You know how I didn't look in the dirty clothes basket the other day, big mistake. Let me go back to the beginning though. I went again to the Hopson house and just sat there. That's right, i sat in the middle of the bathroom thinking. Even though Mrs. Hopson was worried about her ring, she had to go on an emergency business meeting in California. Something about a bank having money troubles or something. Anyway, Zach went with her so he could watch this big football game happening there and Mr. Hopson was currently out of town visiting friends. So my family was house sitting. I was trying to remember all the things mom had told me to do:

1. Vacuum
2. Dust
3. Water the plants
4. Finish the laundry
5...

Laundry! How could I forget? I turned to go to the utility room. To get there from the bathroom, you have to go down this hallway that has about a million doors leading to it, into the living room, and there it is, on the right. I went in and started the drier. Now, being a detective you have to be alert. If even the slightest thing isn't normal, you should check it out. So that's what I did. The thing that wasn't normal was the drier. It was making this weird clinking noise. I stopped the drier, took out all the clothes, searched the pockets and everything, but nothing was there. I started the drier back up and it started again! This time I took out all the clothes and started the drier without them. Again I heard the clinking. Then I remeber that mom had mentioned it was an old drier, so sometimes it didn't respond. Even so, I checked all through that drier, I climbed inside and looked in every corner of that thing. Then I found the place where all the dirt and lint and stuff goes when it comes off the clothes. I looked at it and saw something shiny. It was the ring! Then it all played out in my mind:

Mrs. Hopson had put her ring beside the clothes, but too close. It was so close that the clothes covered most of it. So when she put her clothes in the dirty clothes basket, she had accidently put the ring in there too. So then she took the basket and dumped it into the washer. The ring hadn't made any noise then because it was buried in the clothes and had nothing to bang against, but when she put it in the drier, it had more room to bounce around in and found it's way the lint catcher, where it got stuck and I found it! Wow! I had just solved a real live case! I was so excited I couldn't wait to start another!