‘Cause kids like to get dirty. And different food activities and whatever. And then we would have a Zoo Run run that was started with our running group in town, The Striders. And they would do a 5K run. And we finally grew that one, so they were running through, or next, right next to the zoo so they could at least get a part – and they would get a feeling of being a part of the zoo then. That one evolved and went from more of a friend’s hands-on, small potatoes kind of thing. We knew that if we wanted to change anything in the zoo, it was gonna take some outside sources because the park district had limited funds based on tax dollars. And there were all these other projects.
