We’d gotten exceptions for that, but basically I can still remain remember the Reillys, the three zoos and the logistics people that we were working with that had done these thousands of elephant transfers, the trucks and handling of all this, we basically looked at each other and said the only way these elephants are getting on the plane is if we do it. ‘Cos next thing we know midnight is coming around an these guys were now helping us were, you know, we get off work and we said no, you don’t. And you know, some of us had seen people at UPS places throw on cargo nets and do it in seconds. It was just something nobody had ever done, but it had to be done. And I can remember at 4:30 in the morning with four crates left to go of laying down to take a short nap and it was a three hour hard nap and getting up and looking out the plane and there’s still four crates ‘cos they had to reload, take some off and put some on. We finally got it loaded at eight o’clock that next morning. It didn’t take off until 11:45. I still carry in my cell phone the picture of the plane leaving.
