9-year-old Chris Villavicencio got separated from his parents at the Central Park Zoo in New York on Saturday last. 

Chris wondered off and eventually was found two hours later by police officers at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Naturally his parents were distraught and tearing their hair out worrying about where Chris was, while he was having the time of his life it would seem.

“This was the greatest day of my life, because this was the first day I was at the police station!” the overjoyed boy told the Daily News in New York. 

“I tried to find my parents, but I couldn’t,” the young boy hastened to add.