Mum's Birthday Week!!! :)

This week was another exciting week. On Monday the 17th of March was Mum's birthday!!! I was so excited about giving her my present! I got her a cellphone!

Mum with her cell phone! Shortly after she opened it she recieved her first text message- from Margaret, who wished her a Happy Birthday! :)Mum reading my card (written from me in Russian)
with the quote at the front:

"If I have seen further than others,
it is because I have stood
on the
shoulders of giants"

-( Sir Isaac Newton)

...and Dad's card...Dad gave her pearl earrings and necklace in a wooden box...

...that he made himself!

...and a music DVD that he made with photos of Mum! Mum and I cried while watching it...Linda got her essence sticks and bath petals. When we went to dance class that morning Mum's students gave her flowers and cards and a cake!

That day I dreaded coming in to university for my genetics lecture.
On the way I went to New World and got Mum a birthday balloon. Pretty! :)
I had a feeling that we would be getting our test results back and boy was I nervous! But the lecture begun and no test papers were to be seen. I breathed a sigh of relief. That day we began our new topic on Quantitative genetics and I realised just how much I missed good old Allium triquetrum (garden onion) and all those cytotypes that we studied for the past 3 weeks. As the lecture was about to conclude, I heard the words I was dreading to hear the most "...and here I have your test papers for you to collect..." My heart started beating like crazy. I wanted to throw up. Everyone cued up to get their tests. I had no choice...

Well the good news was that I passed. Whew. Not as great as I wanted to though so I was a bit down in the dumps for a while...but then after class my lecturer said I did fine, so huh?

Anyway, my mood was revived by the time I got home (and gave Mum her balloon). While I was at university Mum's friends have been coming around or calling and wishing her a happy birthday... Lots of flowers!

In the evening we made Mum a birthday dinner, with pelimenis (Russian dish) and salads and other really nice foods. Margaret came over, and we had a party! Margaret gave her sparkly gold earrings!

Mum's Birthday PartyThe Birthday Girl and I

Daddy and the Birthday GirlDaddy and The Zoo (aka Lola and Misty)Margaret and MumWe talked and ate... and danced sooo much!!! It was soooo much fun! And the great thing was that all throughout the evening Mum's friends (and relatives) kept ringing her every hour or so to with her a Happy Birthday! ...she even recieved a phone call at 4am the next morning from a friend in Russia! I can't remember the last time I danced so much!

Birthday cake time!!!- Pavlova!

!!!Happy Birthday!!!!...close your eyes and make a wish...The Birthday Girl is looking extremily happy!!!...
The rest of the night we spent talking and dancing and eating cake, and recieving more phone calls......as she cuts the first peice of cake! (blunt side of knife, as it should)

It had been the most amazing night ever!!! By the time we finished partying it was about midnight! What an awesome day it had been!

We spent all week celebrating Mum's birthday! On Tuesday I had a media studies lecture on advertising. Wednesday was genetics, and for the second time my brain was like mush by the time we finished our 2 hour lecture on quantitative genetics. I really really miss our previous topic! Oh well, I'll have the whole Easter break to figure it all out! Thursday was the lab, that seemed to go on for ages!! Media tutorial was dull (tutorials are getting duller and duller, hence why I don't like them much). The rest of the lab seemed to drag on. It was really hot and stuffy, and it was soo hard to concentrate! We (me and my lab partner) ended up pouring the wrong volume of water into one of our RNA samples so it was too dilute. We also broke our agarose gel on which we ran our gDNA sample. Grrr! It was a very frustrating lab!

...but eventually it was 5pm and...time for a long Easter Weekend (!!) and Mum's Birthday Party #2 to look forwards to the next day!!!!! :):):)