Walks along the Congo River

So we went for a walk last night along the Congo River, we live just one street over. So we are starting on our walk on our street, and all of the sudden we hear some shouting, in French of course so I have no clue what is being said. Well we look behind us and there is someone on a motorcycle coming down the street with two black kinda SUVs behind him. Tyler then realizes oh we need to stop walking, so we stop, thinking it was some ambassador or government person.(just to show respect for anyone here, we stop if there is any motorcade) After they pass Tyler realizes that that was the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo!!! It was President Kabila!!! We knew that one of his palaces is right up the road from us, but we've never seen him out like this before! Turns out that he is a huge motorcycle buff, and was just taking a cruise around town I guess? Tyler told me that when he went to the States just a couple of weeks ago to talk to President Bush that Pres. Bush gave him a gift, it was a Harley-Davidson jacket!! Pres. Kabila didn't have it on. So we continue on our walk, and then we see a soldier walking up away from the River, and then all of the sudden he is running back to where he was at by the River. So we knew something was going on, oh and there are soldiers everywhere down our street since the President lives on this street too, so then we turn around and there is President Kabila again!!! This time I got a good look at him, and he was just having a nice slow stroll along the river too, with the guys in the cars carrying guns!!! Yeah, crazy!! :) Oh and we saw 5 parrots up in one of the trees!! They were gray with red bottoms, and red tails.