Like any major celebration, the International Animalia Convention required a lot of cleaning up, taking down, and putting away. Fortunately, with Animalians helping, it was accomplished rather quickly.
The carnival games and funhouse rides were best left to the professionals. Also, plans were in development to make larger, more reinforced rides for Animalians, especially the megafauna.
A lot of tents and pavilions were easily packed up and put away. Giraffe Animalians would easily help take them down by reaching the higher up places where the tops of the pavilions were held up.
The models of planned Animalia Colonies were placed in an old warehouse that was planned to be adapted to a museum of Animalia. A lot of it included information about Animalia in general, but models of future Animalia Colonies would have a special place there.
While most people headed to Las Vegas National Airport to head home, some decided to take the plain from Lyre and Animalia Airport. Later reviews would describe it as "first class service at coach prices."
The biggest thing to deal with was the trash, such as disposable silverware, paper plates and cups, and other similar trash that results from celebration. Fortunately Las Vegas and Lyre gladly helped with the cleanup, much to the relief of many Animalians.
One of the things done was the counting of the money gained from the IAC, subtracting the expenses, and totaling the net profit from such a thing. When it all came down to it, the net profit was a little over $12 billion. It was easy to divide up with 35% for Horizon Light Hospital research, 25% for developing future colonies overseas, as well as other projects in Animalia, 20% for endorsements and similar expenses, 10% for conversed and uplifted Animalians getting a home for themselves and/or new mates, 5% for paying the security forces for their help, and 5% for paying the Athletes and participants in the games.
Everyone so enjoyed the IAC that the number one request was for the IAC to be a Biannual event (once every two years, as Richard explained to Clara later). Fortunately, there was plenty of time to plan for the next IAC, and plenty of time to rest up, train, and prepare for the next IAC games. The main reason for it to be a biannual event was to keep the strain on local economies to a minimum, which the Animalia council was glad to provide.