KLM airlines 250 word competition

The following is what I submitted to KLM airlines for a fun 250 word competition, I hope I win the luggage for top prize.

Due to inclement weather, my husband and I were trapped in an Almaty, Kazakstan airport, December of 1993.  To keep hydrated, we packed along the local beverages while we waited for our flight out.  (The packaging for bottled water 14 years ago had a distinct, post-Soviet look.)  Once in the
United States, one bottle became something of a relic among my
Minneapolis siblings.  The six of us since that time, have covertly “awarded” the bottle in each others’ refrigerators.  The rules evolved into passing it off to the unsuspecting household with the date of the pass-off written on the side label.  Once, an orange juice carton was used to successfully disguise it.  Another time a three year old made for a poor decoy.  “Busted” by his parents, another tactic was later effectively employed. 

The latest triumph was achieved by my youngest brother last summer. His household, with two preschoolers, had possessed it for about five years.  All my siblings thought it had been broken, thrown out or forgotten.  Not so, he deftly rearranged food wrappings and stuff in our car’s back seat to conceal it.  Currently, the unopened water with transparent debris floating in it is secured in my other brother’s new home.  While helping him refinish his old house, I carefully placed it amongst his other brews.  I hope the new owners did not find a bottle with faded markings of old written dates.  Who will be the next recipient of this “coveted” prize?