The day that we lived large at Animal Kingdom

I should preface this post by telling you

that I made the executive decision

to leave my fancy camera at home for our trip

cause I didn't want to have to camera sit the whole time.

Instead I took our moody and ancient point and shoot

that has an attitude problem and just decides to stop

working from time to time so the pics I took

are not amazing and it makes me sad.

I digress...moving on.

On our second day at the Disney parks

we went to Animal Kingdom.

It was an AWESOME day.

My mom has friends in high places at Disney

so we were given VIP treatment throughout the day.

I'd say that Koen's day started off the 

best of all us when he ate a cookie

that was bigger than his face.

I kid you not.

Why not have a cookie at 9:00 am?

That's what vacation is for.

Next up, we went on the safari ride.

Being so close to the animals was really cool.

For half a second I felt like I was in my favorite film Out of Africa

and at any moment I would look beside me to

see Robert Redford but alas...he never popped up.

We gave the kids disposable cameras and

they had so much fun snapping away at the animals.

They mostly took pics of their fingers and the sky

but some of the shots were actually really great.

Maybe I'll share some of those photos soon.

Okay, so then they rolled out the red carpet 

and we got to do some super special stuff.

My mom's friend arranged for the children to train a skunk.

It was the cutest stinkiest little guy

but the kids loved being so close to a real animal.

It was super duper exciting.

Then, we were given fromt row seats
to see The Lion King
which was beautiful
and fantastic.

Whenever I hear that song
The Circle of Life
I get all blubbery and misty.

What an amazing show.

We were also given a reserved roped off area 

to watch the afternoon parade.

It was so fun to be right in the middle of the action.

Koen made it his own personal mission 

to get a high five from every character that walked by.

He accomplished the task smashingly!

It was such a fun filled day!