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I love stingrays!\u00a0 Especially their underside.\u00a0 To me they look like happy angels.<\/p>\n

The State Fair of Texas at Fair Park has a revamped children’s aquarium that has a “hands on” exhibit with horseshoe crab, rock lobsters and other non-venomous water creatures that can be touched.\u00a0 Then, in an outside, but covered area are the sharks and stingrays, the latter which can be hand fed and touched.\u00a0 After the tragedy that involved Steve Irwin several years ago, I have been a bit leery about touching a stingray, but these were harmless because they did not have their stingers.\u00a0 Little characters, they would jockey for the right to get touched and to take shrimp out of your hand.\u00a0 Pushing and shoving, along with squabbling, the largest wasn’t always the winner in the “battle”, but the “conflict reminded me a lot of a rugby scrum in chaos.<\/p>\n

And then there was the “ham”.\u00a0 The one stingray that had to show off at the window.\u00a0 One of the larger stingrays in the tank, “he” wanted to be noticed [I don’t know if it was a he or she, but for ease of speech I am using the male pronoun] and made no bones about it, bobbing up and down and back and forth, swimming in a circle around the tank, and then coming back to bob up and down at the window again.\u00a0 It was like he was begging to have his photo taken.\u00a0 So, I did.\u00a0 And I got him in a position that said to me, “I am happy to see you, and I love you THIS much.”.\u00a0 It was a great experience, and left me feeling upbeat.<\/p>\n

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I love stingrays!\u00a0 Especially their underside.\u00a0 To me they look like happy angels. The State Fair of Texas at Fair Park has a revamped children’s aquarium that has a “hands on” exhibit with horseshoe crab, rock lobsters and other non-venomous water creatures that can be touched.\u00a0 Then, in an outside, but covered area are the sharks and stingrays, the latter which can be hand fed and touched.\u00a0 After the tragedy that involved Steve Irwin several years ago, I have been a bit leery about touching a stingray, but these were harmless because they did not have their stingers.\u00a0 Little characters, they would jockey for the right to get touched and to take shrimp out of your hand.\u00a0 Pushing and shoving, along with squabbling, the largest wasn’t always the winner in the “battle”, but the “conflict reminded me a lot of a rugby scrum in chaos. And then there was the “ham”.\u00a0 The one stingray that had to show off at the window.\u00a0 One of the larger stingrays in the tank, “he” wanted to be noticed [I don’t know if it was a he or she, but for ease of speech I am using the male pronoun] and made no bones about it, bobbing up and down and back and forth, swimming in a circle around the tank, and then coming back to bob up and down at the window again.\u00a0 It was like he was begging to have his photo taken.\u00a0 So, I did.\u00a0 And I got him in a Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y5uS-4g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}