And that meant making a crate for it there, which they had facilities to do that because they were shipping animals from the orphanage. And I proceeded to have a crate made, and got to the airport with the crate and an animal. And the guy said, “But you can’t ship that animal, “it’s gonna defecate or urinate, “and mess up the whole freight compartment.” He said, “You’re gonna have to somehow tarp it “or use some plastic material to do it.” And I said, “Well, that’s not gonna be easy.” But we managed, and next thing I knew the baby elephant’s trunk was rapping at this plastic material and putting it in its mouth. And I said, “Well, we can’t do that.” So we took the plastic off, and the guy said, “You can’t go.” And finally, we somehow reached an accommodation, and then lo and behold, I found out that the crate wouldn’t fit in the plane’s freight area. I think it those were VC10s at that time. And so that messed up that, and then by sheer good luck, about three hours later, a KLM flight going to Amsterdam of a different size plane where the Creek would fit, worked out. And so the baby elephant and I got on that flight, got to Amsterdam. And then there, they have a really a wonderful animal holding facility, they did at that time anyway.
