For the birds...

My family is the best. They sure do love me.

ahem

My fear of birds is well-known to everyone. This is true. My family like to use this to their advantage, like for instance...spending extra long amounts of time at the bird display at the fair....placing bird feeders in the backyard.

Here's a visual story for you. Picture it playing out in your head.

We're on the ferry. We are outside in the front waiting to get off. There is a bird just chilling on the railing. A seagull, to be specific. Joel starts walking really slowly towards the bird. I am not sure if he was trying to scare me or the bird, or a combination of the two. He got up right next to the bird and it did.not.move. He was literally inches from this beast. I was NOT amused. The kids were. Quite amused actually.

They slowly made their way over there too, so now my three (formerly) favorite people are hanging out with the enemy. Honestly, in retrospect, if I had not been frozen in terror it would have made a great photo. Good thing the bird did not attack, because I was NOT coming to anyone's rescue. They would have had to learn that lesson the hard way.