a lion king dream come true....

As you can imagine, the trip to see the Lion King in Las Vegas was a huge hit. My parents said that Charlie did great on the nine hour drive. He was so excited to see all the advertisements and billboards for the show all over the city. He was very diligent in pointing out every single one of them, just in case my parents may have missed one. On the day of the show, he took a long nap so that he would be rested up since the show did not start until 8pm and was 2.5 hours long. He also wanted to spray his hair orange so my brother took him to Sally's Beauty supply to get some hair color. They did not have orange so he settled for red. He was freaking out all the way to the show. He got a little impatient once they got to their seats and had to wait for it to start. He sang along to all the songs and thoroughly enjoyed every minute. About half way through he looked at my dad and said "Well, I think I am going to go up on the stage now and see Rafiki." As you can imagine, he was very dissapointed when he realized that wasn't going to happen.

He is still just as obsessed as before. He still watches all the clips on YouTube and asks to listen to the CD in the car. Now, he is especially interested in the German and French versions and is learning the words to all the songs in these two languages. It is just about the cutest thing to hear him singing He Lives in You in French with his little voice in the backseat of the car. He is pretty sure that we will be going to Germany soon to see the show there. I would love to go to Germany, but I just don't see it in our future anytime soon....Anybody else on their way to Hamburg and have room for a little guy to tag along?

This video is for Charlie. I wasn't even going to put it on the blog, but he requested it. Just a warning, it is not exactly riveting. But it is great to see how excited he was since we couldn't be there to see it first hand. :)