The Beach Park

The kids really like this park too......we usually go here A LOT while we're visiting my Dad. I have fond memories of this park too, watching the sunset & walking around. It has a great walking path that goes over a bridge and to a dock. We bring the kids plasma cars down there & the path by the grass is nice and smooth.....just perfect for them to ride on. Boulevard Park also has a playground for the kids & a coffee shop there too : )

The first thing when we got there the kids saw that the tide was out and wanted to go down and turn rocks over to find crabs.

They found some other kids to play with too that had actually found a little eel. I didn't even know that there were eels in the water there!

You can see the bridge here and way down there is the dock that links up with the shore at another spot.

Here's the shoreline the other way. We lucked out, and the sun came out right as we got to the park : )

We also had a bit of excitement/scare too........as I made multiple trips to car to get the kids plasma cars (one at a time of course.......they didn't want them when I asked them), then their shoes (they have to wear certain shoes on their plasma cars because the toes of the shoes get destroyed by being drug on the ground.) Then I went to get something else......the kite and the ribbon to twirl around.........anyway, I kept hearing a baby whimper/cry.......and wondered where it was coming from. Was it coming from one of the condos up on the hill? It sounded closer than that to me......so finally I went to investigate. It didn't take long, for two cars over there she was, probably about a year old, strapped in a car seat in the back seat with no parents in sight.......I looked around and looked around and waited for someone to respond. Well, no one did......I felt hesitant to interfere, but I went up the to coffee shop and asked them to call the police because someone had left their child in the car unattended, and yes, I checked to see if the door was locked. I went back to the car and again was hesitant, but I thought, "I just can't let this little girl suffer in the hot car. She had a sweatshirt on too and the sun was hitting her through both the side and the back windows, so I knew she was hot. Children die in cars in AZ because it gets so much hotter in the car than the air temp. There was only one window cracked a little bit. I thought, "I've never going to be able to fit my arm in there", but I tried anyway. My arm got stuck just before my elbow. I thought "I'm so close", so I pushed hard and got it in a little farther. Then the problem was that there wasn't really enough room to get my arm to bend backwards.......but somehow I did. Luckily, it was the old style of lock that sticks up and I could just barely reach it with the very backside tip of my fingers and was able to pull the lock up. I'm telling you, I had a little help from above I think. Up until that point I felt like I was doing something wrong, breaking into their car, but he little girl stopped fussing as soon as I came to the side of the car. Now that I was in, I felt like a weight had lifted. I noticed that she wasn't buckled in properly, her arms weren't even through the straps.....but never mind that, I just wanted to get her out. I unbuckled her and brought her over the the shade, to the coffee shop to get her some water. She was just staring at the crowd that was now hanging out and wouldn't drink the water. The staff at the coffee shop was still on the phone with the police and another gal offered her a lollipop. I thought she was too young for a sucker, but if she would suck on it while I was holding her, then that was ok. She went right into unwrapping it. Her parents actually showed up just a few minutes later and were staring in shock at their empty car. Someone steered them over to where I was and they came over. I handed her back right away and told that it's illegal to leave her in the car by herself and that she had been crying for over 10 minutes and it was very hot in the car, she was sweating. My Dad, who was right beside me told that also that it only takes about 15 minutes in a hot car for a child to die. The mom did not say anything. The dad just said, still stunned, "Well.........thank you" and they walked off. The police showed up just a few minutes later and my Dad and I gave them a description of couple & the baby. I did not see what happened after that. The police officer drove down the other end of the park to try and find the couple, and my dad said he saw him drive back by awhile later. The car was still parked there when we left. Who knows how long that poor little girl had been in the car. We had been at the park a couple of hours and I had seen the couple earlier and didn't remember them having a child with them. At least she was safe now : )