in the absence of tanya peterson our director i will present the zoo's update today. >> thank you. >> beginning with the financial update, >> are you doing a powerpoint? >> yes. >> okay. >> beginning with the financial update i'm very happy to report and certainly as the cfo to report that our actually year-to-date attendance through january 319 is 449,869 visitors. it's overbudge by 8.2% or 34,069 visitors. we just had a very, very good first-half of the year and to add to that, we have had a spectacular and record-setting presidents' holiday weekend, including lunar new year on sunday and the opening of a temporary dinosaur maze exhibit on friday. you can visit the dinosaur maze expect

. >> good morning, tanya peterson with the san francisco zoo, i'm sorry i'm so casual but we're hanging light this morning, and we'll start with november attendance, as you saw in the report, we had 45 thousand 680 visitors during the month of november versus our 41 thousand budget so we had a positive increase by over 4600 visitors, that's the good news because this december thus far, rain seems to have come on every weekend day which is with we have our highest periods of attendance and it looks like it's going to rain this weekend, december is running behind budget by about 17%, thankfully year to date balances 4% ahead, but we're hoping with some holiday programming, we will make up the delta these next two week, as you know, four reindeer came in to visit us for the holiday period, you can also adopt a reindeer and adopt and conserve north american species and also we're doing something very new for us, we're keeping the zoo open until 8:00 through the holidays and we are going to have some zoo life thanks to pg and e and our sponsors and we thought we could do a little preview of

in the absence of tanya peterson our director i will present the zoo's update today. >> thank you. >> beginning with the financial update, >> are you doing a powerpoint? >> yes. >> okay. >> beginning with the financial update i'm very happy to report and certainly as the cfo to report that our actually year-to-date attendance through january 319 is 449,869 visitors. it's overbudge by 8.2% or 34,069 visitors. we just had a very, very good first-half of the year and to add to that, we have had a spectacular and record-setting presidents' holiday weekend, including lunar new year on sunday and the opening of a temporary dinosaur maze exhibit on friday. you can visit the dinosaur maze expect in our exhibit. zoo camps are held in march, april, june, july and august. please check our website, our call the education determine for more information. please sign up early as the classes fill very quickly. it's fun and educational time for the young folks that come to the zoo. another positive note we're honored and delighted to have san francisco giant's pitcher sergio romar visit the zoo to mee