I’m looking around, the zoo is eight years old. All modern, all new, young staff, they’re excited. I liked what I saw and Louis had sent me up there thinking that I’d see what I’d learned. He was very good about allowing us to travel to conferences. And I got talking to Ron Blakely and vice versa, and I actually even told my grandparents who were both still living in Kansas at the time that I thought I’d get a job offer in six months ‘cos I could tell that the assistant director at the time was probably not gonna be there much longer. And three months later, I got a call one night and I went up to see him a week later and worked out the details, came back and gave a about a three week notice I think and ended up working to that last hour. I always envisioned that last couple days walking around the zoo, saying goodbye to everything and to everybody. I barely made it to my little retirement gig they had done at the restaurant.
