thank you president bruel. we had a record sell out.i'm congratulating -- >> it must be because of the auction near. >> we're going to put them right in front. and the invitations just dropped. with that, let me get back to the business of the zoo and if i can go to the screen here, i hope. >> great. let me give you a quick update on attendance. like you were almost at the end of our fiscal year, as a reminder, i'm going to go to the next. the zoo had its best attendance in 80 years. with the play ground and the zoo lights and warm weather, it was the best attendance we've had, and i thank you all for that. also with the good weather and the play ground, we had great attendance in january by -- by over 25,000, so that new play ground is doing what we hoped and i thank you all for your support of that play ground. however in february, you see we did have some rain. and it hit on the weekends. and you can see how we're impacted by rain. we were below budget by $9,000 for the month of february. but the good news is we have a healthy cushio