This year for Christmas, Melissa & I got the kids tickets for the Stingray Experience at Ripleys Aquarium.

This is where we got a behind the scenes tour of the aquarium followed by a 20 min swim in the tank with the Stingrays. I really do not know how best to describe how amazing this experience was for our family. When in the water, the Stingrays swam all around us for the entire 20 minutes!!! Aiden probably got splashed 7 or 8 times right in the face by passing Stingrays including in the video below. We even go to feed the Stingrays!!!

Abby in the water petting the Stingrays

Picture of everyone before getting into the water

Melissa in the water petting the Stingrays

Everyone in the water petting the Stingrays

Melissa in the water petting the Stingrays

Aiden in the water petting the Stingrays

Abby in the water petting the Stingrays

Everyone in the water petting the Stingrays

A view from behind the scenes at Ripleys Aquarium

Everyone in the water petting the Stingrays

Abby in the water petting the Stingrays

Peter in the water petting the Stingrays

Abby & Aiden in the water petting the Stingrays

After participating in the Stingray Experience we stuck around at the aquarium until almost closing time.

Abby & Nemo

Melissa and the kids in front of the Christmas tree at Ripleys

The cost of the kids if they were Tuna

Peter & the kids playing peekaboo on the way out

Abby checking out a Giant Grouper

Schools of Fish

The kids dabbing in front of Ripleys

Aiden & the kids in front the Christmas Tree in the lobby

A Stingray in one of the tanks

A fish in one of the tanks

The Octopus moving through the tank

Aiden just hanging out in front of the fish tank

Melissa hearing what bats hear

Fish eating

Abby & Aiden in front of their fish tanks

By the time we got home, the kids had passed out from a very long and exciting day!!