The elevator creaked in the shaft as they reached the fifth floor of the apartment building. The elevator having a single dim white light in it and its wall covered in light blue wallpaper.

Jewel hated being in enclosed spaces, but with Blu next to her she felt a little more comfortable. Besides the creaking of the elevator was getting on everyone's nerves.

The doors opened with light ding sound.

"Fifth floor." A automated voice came in through a panel.

The door of the elevator slid open to the left, the entire family looked for apartment 5A.

Tulip knocked on the door, and heard a gasp sound in the apartment.

"Oh my goodness, she must be here already!" a female voice said from behind the wooden door.

A couple of muffled clicking sounds behind the door handle sounded off and OT opened.

A older woman with red hair dressed in pink sweatpants and sweatshirt appeared at the door. She immediately stretched out her arms to hug Linda.

"Linda im so glad you were able to come all the way back to the country. Oh, and this must be Tulio and Fernando?" She asked.

"Yeah, Tulio Fernando, meet my Aunt Vicky." Linda said.

"Hello Ms. Vicky! " Fernando and Tulio waved their hands.

"Well come inside please". Vicky invited them inside.

The apartment was a small one, a hallway was the first room they entered, and a small one at that only 10 feet, a closet was inside as well as the entrance to the kitchen and living room.

Linda set the birds down on a small coffee table to the side of the couch and took her boots and coat off.

"So Ms. Vicky- " Tulio began

"Please just call me Vicky"

"Oh, um. Vicky, I wondered if you are at all interested in birds?" Tulio asked Vicky.

"Birds, ha, I love them. Especially Blu over there. So well trained. And its not like I have a choice to like birds or not, everytime I walk outside there is a flock of pigeons or seagulls-"

Blu gulped at the word seagull. He was just 4 years old when he met one for the first time. A normal seagull, bear in mind, is 4 to 5 times the size of a macaw.

Not to get in too much detail but, in the end more than a couple of blue feathers were missing from him.

They stayed at Vicky house for the rest of the day, Vicky was coming with them on their road trip up north to Chicago and Moose Lake.

Blu and his family were allowed to go around the house as they pleased, but its been a long day.

The family went inside the cage to go to bed, And everyone else let themselves drift off for the night.

The next morning was a bitterly cold one, 6:30 Am, the sun hasn't rose above the Horizon and it was still dark. There want a light in the city, except for the moon, the lights of taxis; buses ; boats ; aircraft, the cell phones and electronic watches of people commuting to work, red and green lights flashing from the antennae of tall skyscrapers.

It seemed the city didn't need the sun, it made light to light up itself.

The weatherman seemed to be cold when reporting the weather.

"And here in New Jersey around Atlantic city there are wind chills bringing it to a bitterly cold -21 degrees. School closures have been issued inside the City of New York and trains and buses are operating on a restricted schedule as the mayor said yesterday-" the T.V. was on as everybody got ready to brave the cold.

Fernando never wore a jacket, except for when he first had to come to the city. Much less wear a winter coat with a furry Russian made hat. Long Jhons, sweatpants, boots, furry socks, and gloves under mittens were worn to keep the cold out.

Stepping outside of the apartment into the dark sky, the air was filled with a scent of cold fresh water. Mainly since Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs are surrounded by water.

The moon hung low in the sky, being blocked out occasionally by trees and buildings as the family drove through the streets of Manhattan, despite the mayor telling people to stay in most people ignored the warning and went to work anyway. So the car got caught in more traffic than usual.

Bia stared outside the window of the car as she looked at Manhattan, identifying buildings, famous streets, and world records held on the borough.

Tiago was still asleep, Carl was doing her trademark "I hate everyone so ill stare at my phone" action. Blu and Jewel mainly wrapped wings around each other.

They say the the heist makes people crazy, but the cold is worst. People were out in the darkness jogging in shorts, people forgot gloves meaning their fingers would freeze after 15 minutes, just craziness.

The car passed into a major highway going downtown into the heart of Manhattan, after waiting in traffic for an entire hour, the family drove into a tunnel connecting them with New Jersey.

The sun was a little above the horizon now, small apartment blocks want around here and there, as they drove on the New Jersey Turnpike. Lots of cars drove the mostly urban side of Eastern New Jersey, as they drove through the state. Soon the apartment buildings died down, into suburban flats, then into flat grasslands and bushes. The rural area of New Jersey.

Ponds here, a big bridge there, cattails reeds over their, it was really rural, and not a single building was nearby, except of course the freeway. They passed through some townships that contained residential flats and some larger villages and towns contained apartments but besides that most of the New Jersey was pretty flat and uninhabited, except for some major cities near the state and city of New York like Newark or Jersey City.

The crossed state lines at the end of the day, into Pennsylvania were they made their first rest stop St Philadelphia. Philadelphia was a big city too, bustling with people. Streetcars went up and down the streets, commuter trains coming from larger and smaller cities and towns raced in and outside the city .

The family stopped their car in front of a hotel were they spent the night so they could continue their journey.

Inside of the hotel Bia was sharing photos of the New Jersey country , the city of New York and the City of Philadelphia she caught with Bia's phone.

"Its beautiful isn't it?" She asked Blu.

"It really is. Are you sure you don't want to be a photographer of some sort?" Blu asked

Bia shook her head as she lied down and fell asleep.

Blu soon followed.