Interesting Easter.....

So this Easter I went with the boyfriend to his parent's house for lunch. It was nice since it was just the four of us and because I really haven't had much of a chance to spend time with them much due to work.


The boyfriend's parents are really big bird people. They volunteer every now and then at some exotic bird place out by Belle Fouche, SD.  The place is called something like parrot rescue. I wish I could remember the name.
So after lunch was eaten they decided it was time for me to meet some of the birds and to show them off. Most of the birds are really pretty, but don't like to be touched by anyone, but them.

After a little while my boyfriend disappeared and came back with another bird. This one had an orange head, yellow back, green tail, red eyes, and really funny looking feet. Even with the feet he was rather cute to look at.
After awhile the bird got curious and wanted to look around so the boyfriend sat him on the floor so he could hop around and look at things. I asked if the bird has had its wings clipped and was informed that the wings have not been clipped, but for whatever reason the bird just doesn't like to fly.
I watched the bird hop around while they told me how they came into possession of the little guy. AKA Armstrong.

Apparently a really nice family owned him and they had two children. They were fairly well off and decided to adopt two children to give them a grand total of 4 kids. The adopted kids were of  colored ancestry and apparently the bird did not like that. The poor small children were at one point hospitalized because of the bird. The family had to part with him. So basically the bird is racist.
I had never heard of anything so odd in my life.

Then I had the crap scared out of me. .....Well pretty darn close.
The bird had finally noticed that I was a "new" person and found me rather interesting. He was hoping around by my feet and "tasting" (biting) my pants. He noticed that the legs of my pants were rather baggy and wanted to know what was up the leg so he stuck his head in to take a look and almost climbed in all the way. He probably would have except I founded the rest of my pant leg together to keep he out.
He looked rather disappointed, but decided it was okay. I put my hand down and he climbed on to it and up onto my shoulder. He made lots of happy sounds and I found out that he likes people, but usually doesn't warm up right away to anyone new.

After awhile I decided to step out for a cancer stick and had the boyfriend remove said bird so I could put my jacket on to step outside. The bird started making kind of sad sounds. I felt bad.
The boyfriends parents told me to just take him with me. So I let him hop back onto my shoulder and went to smoke with bird using me as his perch.
He didn't seem to mind my smoking and groomed my hair while I inhaled my toxic fumes. He got bored of that after only a few minutes and decided to make conversation with a small finch that had landed in the tree next to us.
It was actually rather relaxing to hear them chirp while I smoked. Soon I was done and the bird went back inside with me without complaint.


I say interesting Easter because..... I am almost certain I am one of a rare few who can claim that a bird tried to go up their pants let alone on an Easter.

I enjoyed spending time with the boyfriend and his parents and was kinda sad when we had to go. I am not worried. I will see them again another day when more time is available. Same for that crazy bird named Armstrong.