A Day at the Zoo

Welcome to a non-Disney related post from my life! Gasp! I know… this is crazy, right? Don’t worry, there will be more Disney posts coming from me again in the future (aw yeah, get excited!).

I have been home in Illinois for a few days now, and to say it has been an adjustment would be an understatement. As something fun to do this weekend, I went to the zoo with my little brother and mom!

We looked at a few animals, we were you know, at the zoo after all! I have to be honest and say that I never used to really care about animals all that much. Before today, the last time I had been to the zoo was probably on a field trip around third grade.

This may sound corny, but working at Disney’s Animal Kingdom has made me appreciate animals so much more. I am actually interested in spending time looking at them now! Call me a changed woman!

One thing that I was excited we would be doing was visiting the Stingray Bay! Look! Here I am touching a stingray! Score!

"Mr. Ray!"

During lunch, I looked over the zoo’s map and was bummed to not see any Asian apes. I spent the last seven months working next to Siamangs and White-Cheeked Gibbons everyday and grew to love them very much!

When we walked into our last exhibit of the day however, we saw this sign…

Do you see what that says?! There was not just a White-Cheeked Gibbon to see, but a 2-month old baby Gibbon! I was so freaking excited!

There ended up being a little Gibbon family of 5 to see! Unfortunately, they were hanging out in the far end of the exhibit so my pictures are not very good, but let me tell you that they were so stinking adorable!

I'm really only posting this poor-quality picture to prove 

that I did in fact see them!

On our way out, we stopped by the gorillas, and look, another baby! I mean, how could you not love these little miniature-sized animals? I want to hug them all!

Also, far off in the distance, but look! Gah, so precious! 

It was a very good, yet tiring day from all of the walking! I feel my time at DAK really prepared me for enjoying things like this, and I also learned that Animal Kingdom will never be too far away! Right here, in Illinois' Brookfield Zoo, I found the stuffed version of Animal Kingdom! Well, hey there!

As I now work on figuring out my crazy zoo of a life (see what I did there?), it will be nice to take little breaks from the chaos to enjoy things like this!

I hope you’re doing the same!

x Lauren