And Art said, “I’ll underwrite the purchase of the animal.” And we started a dialogue between the director of the zoo there in Sri Lanka, Lindy Alice, and also the governmental agencies. And finally, after what seemed like an interminable time, there was a small window of opportunity to go to their place and get the baby elephant. The window for me was that I had an international conference coming up in Caracas in South America. And I think I had something like, I can’t recall exactly, anywhere from maybe six to eight days to accomplish this mission. Get on a plane here in Chicago and go over there, pick up a baby elephant, get it back to Chicago and still make my conference in Sri Lanka in Caracas that I was committed to. Well, it was a classic case where everything that could go wrong did. It started right here at O’Hare, I got on a taxi and was gonna the airport, and lo and behold, I’m in the taxi on the way to O’Hare airport, and told the driver whichever airline I was going to, and sat back and relaxed. And anybody that knows Chicago knows that there’s a turnoff just before you get to the airport that goes to the interstate down Indiana.
