I started my day today at the Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum with some great coffee and delicious, crazily decorated doughnuts!

Halloween doughnuts
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It is the Cut-n-Gut event, in preparation for Zoo Boo coming up this Friday through Sunday. Hundreds of volunteers, (including the early birds at 7 this morning!) open up donated pumpkins, remove all the guts and then proceed to turn them into artwork!

Zoo Volunteers at work for the Cut-n-Gut event
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Pumpkin carved into a spider
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The over 300 carved pumpkins will light up the zoo exhibits and walkways, while thousands of kids collect candy and prizes from a huge variety of treat tents.

Don't forget your camera, photo ops will be numerous! You can choose afternoon or evening hours: Friday, October 24th-5:30 to 8:30, Saturday, October 25th and Sunday, October 26th from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5 for zoo members, $6 for non-members and children two and under free. Get tickets at the zoo box office, all Hyvee and Lewis stores or online here.

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