Rick had a friend from Optometry School in town for the week so we decided to take him down to check out the Tampa area for the weekend- talk about beautiful! I've been to my share of beaches around North America, and I've never seen water and sand this color before! Our camera broke on the way down so we weren't able to take any pictures though. We had a great time relaxing on the beach, taking a boat ride around the islands and checking out the aquarium. We had been itchin' for some sun and beach time after our "winter" here, so it was fun to get away, even though we all came back a little on the pink side - Ryan is more like a shade of red, ouch!
At the aquarium we were at the viewing area of the shark and stingray tank watching as they swam around. I noticed the largest of the stingrays, who was bigger than Ashlyn, swimming towards us and quickly pointed it out to the kids to watch. It began to swim faster and faster right towards us without slowing down and just before it hit the wall it jumped out of the water and "flapped its wings" at us splashing us with the water. Needless to say we all screamed and jumped back, which caused the workers to get a good laugh at our expense. They said that for some reason that stingray does it from time to time, they aren't sure why. But what was funnier was when we were down at the viewing area below and watched the same stingray start to pick up speed and do the same thing to another group of observers. We saw it comin' and just waited for the scream, sure enough...we laughed pretty hard!
Rick had a friend from Optometry School in town for the week so we decided to take him down to check out the Tampa area for the weekend- talk about beautiful! I've been to my share of beaches around North America, and I've never seen water and sand this color before! Our camera broke on the way down so we weren't able to take any pictures though. We had a great time relaxing on the beach, taking a boat ride around the islands and checking out the aquarium. We had been itchin' for some sun and beach time after our "winter" here, so it was fun to get away, even though we all came back a little on the pink side - Ryan is more like a shade of red, ouch!
At the aquarium we were at the viewing area of the shark and stingray tank watching as they swam around. I noticed the largest of the stingrays, who was bigger than Ashlyn, swimming towards us and quickly pointed it out to the kids to watch. It began to swim faster and faster right towards us without slowing down and just before it hit the wall it jumped out of the water and "flapped its wings" at us splashing us with the water. Needless to say we all screamed and jumped back, which caused the workers to get a good laugh at our expense. They said that for some reason that stingray does it from time to time, they aren't sure why. But what was funnier was when we were down at the viewing area below and watched the same stingray start to pick up speed and do the same thing to another group of observers. We saw it comin' and just waited for the scream, sure enough...we laughed pretty hard!
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