Laura Day

So I agreed that he could have him that Friday.

So Laura picked him up from school.

They would maybe stop to get one of their regular fruit smoothie drinks and head to the house.

He likes to try different ones all the time, so he tried some blueberry, I think it was.

And then he wanted chicken nuggets, so we got the chicken nuggets and we cruised on home.

And I said, well, if we're gonna have a picnic on the beach, I gotta get all the beach gear.

So was this an impromptu visit to the beach with Taylor, or was it planned?

No, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision.

You had spoken to Laura on the phone.

Had she mentioned that she might take him to the beach?

She had mentioned going to McDonald's and getting him a Happy Meal, but never to the beach.

We went home, got the beach gear, and we just went across the street to the beach in my car, and I couldn't believe it.

The beach was so packed for a Friday.

My first thought was, don't these people work?

So I went down quite a ways.

You went far away just so there'd be less people?

To less people because it was really crowded and to get our own space on the beach.

When we stopped, even though there were people over to my left that were fishing, a couple, they had a dog and the dog wasn't on the leash.

So I said, you know, let's go down a little further.

Did you plan to put him in the water?