2026 Family Fun Day on the Zoo

On Sunday, June 14, the Danella Family Fun Day introduced collectively workers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, together with their households, for a day of celebration on the Elmwood Park Zoo. This day allowed everybody to mirror on the core values Danella embodies—bringing the neighborhood collectively.

What makes Danella profitable isn’t simply what will get achieved, however quite who comes by the doorways each single day and places forth their finest efforts. The Elmwood Park Zoo was a super location for a day stuffed with actions that may be family-friendly. Families explored the grounds at their very own tempo, taking in all of the displays the Elmwood Park Zoo has to supply. Private reveals added slightly additional magic to the afternoon, and for these courageous sufficient, a giraffe feeding expertise gave households a reminiscence that’s going to be arduous to prime. It’s protected to say that irrespective of your age, coming head to head with a giraffe has a approach of being the spotlight of nearly anyone’s day.

Of course, no Danella occasion can be full with out nice meals, and Family Fun Day delivered on that entrance too. A cookout-style unfold saved everybody fueled all through the day, and free ice cream ensured that the one meltdowns have been those occurring in everybody’s cones. To cap all of it off, a raffle gave attendees the prospect to win some unimaginable prizes, together with Phillies tickets, a Blue Stone Golf outing, a Capital Grille reward card, and a Beach bundle to maintain the winners equipped for a implausible summer time. Safe to say, the competitors for these was fierce.

But past the giraffes, the meals, and the raffle prizes, what made June 14 actually particular was merely the individuals who confirmed up for it. Danella’s best asset has at all times been its individuals, and Family Fun Day is one small approach of claiming thanks for the lengthy hours, the demanding work, and the dedication they bring about each single day. The households who stand behind our workers by all of it should be celebrated too. This day was for them simply as a lot as anybody. Thank you to everybody who got here out and made it such an exquisite afternoon.

– Morgan Peta, Marketing Intern