Once upon a Sunday, Grandma Braska flew into town and the grandkids rejoiced. The afternoon of her arrival, it was decided to take a venture to the local aquarium and spend time with Grandma Braska showing her things like turtles, sharks, stingrays, otters and such.
The visit started out ok with a few exhibits and "grandma look at this" statements as they led her around the first section. It was upon siding up to the hands on stingray petting exhibit that disaster struck. Everything seemed to be going swimmingly (ha I crack myself up) and the kids were enjoying trying to pet the passing sting rays. A couple of sting rays came to a stop and burried themselves in the sand right before us. The mom excused herself to the other side of the tank to take some required pictures (i.e. I gotta have something to blog) with a warning on her way of "don't lean too far over the side" as she passed the sting-ray doting kids and started snapping away.
It was immediately after snapping the second shot and turning to return that a "SPLASH" and some loud gasps from bystanders was heard. The mom immediately thought to herself, "Please don't be one of my boys." But, having the sinking feeling that it was, she hurried to round the pillar just to see a nice stranger plucking Zaden from the waters soaked from head to toe, shaking and crying. Dad and Grandma also rushed over to assess the situation and immediately checked him over to find no injuries other than to his pride. He was cold, scared and embarrassed but surprisingly unscathed without a single scratch on him. The aquarium staff responded with towels and an incident report to fill out and after a trip by the mom to the gift shop for a dry shirt and getting him as dry as possible and somewhat calmed down, they went back on their merry way.
The rest of the adventure was spent enjoying more exhibits and of course a little ribbing him (which he didn't appreciate) and laughing to themselves about it along the way.
Upon exiting they drowned (pun intended) their experience in burgers and cheese fries at the nearest Training Table restaurant. Then ventured home to a hot bath to wash off the remnants of sting-ray goo. The moral of this story is best summed up in the words of Zaden himself, "The sting-ray was too deep!"
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