Calling all Bird Lovers...

As many of you know - I've got birds. Two very loud, very annoying, and very obnoxious - but cute! birds. See cute picture of obnoxious bird below:

There are not many bird people out there. Bird people ensue a streak of craziness themselves. I found this out after working at Marine World in the Bird Department. After shows or while walking around with a bird in hand answering questions, we would be graced with some very peculiar bird lovers and all their grandiose stories. Although, that is not the topic of discussion today - perhaps another day...

My dilema is that I am going on vacation. Now, normally, I would have roommates that could take care of the birds, the neighbors kid, or my mom would come over and check on them. But niether of these are the case anymore. My soon-to-be-at-some-point-and-time-in-my-life-mother-in-law will be staying at the house to drive Kyle crazy - uh, I mean, keep an eye on him. Niether of them are bird people.

One of the bird cages have the food and water set up so you can take care of it from the outside of the cage. But the other bird's cage, the crazy one above, does not have that option. This is what I'm thinking...

A) Switch birds so the crazy one is in the cage which can be accessed from the outside.

B) Rig up some sort of feeding container that can drop the food into the bowl from the outside of the cage. But that still leaves an issue with the water bowl. Perhaps a turkey baster to suck the water out and put new water in? Noooo, the bowl would still need to be cleaned because it would get all slimy.

C) Give each of them a crash course on Birds 101: What NOT to do followed up with my mother's phone number posted on stick-em's all over the house, in the bird room and her number on speed dial in case of an emergency.

I'm thinking it's going to be C.

It's going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine.