Holidays, why do you move so quickly?

Today I farewelled my mum, and left Tamworth after having spent a glorious 13 days there! I must admit that I wasn't took keen to leave, I love hanging out with my mum, she is just so darn lovely, and she is hilarious! Plus, leaving means that I have to return to Brisbane eventually, and holidays are just so nice...
Mum likes to scare people, and she also likes to kick the back of your knee while you're standing still, so your leg collapses. Her favourite place for doing this in when people are leaning on the top of the half-wall around the kitchen, so that when your leg collapses, your knee hits the wooden wall.
She has passed these wonderful traits on to her kids.
Mum got me good last week when she jumped out from an empty room as I walked down the dark hallway, I screamed and kicked her in the shin, out of self defense. I didn't kick her very hard though, so if she had've been an intruder, it wouldn't have done them any damage...maybe put them slightly off balance, but not injure them.
Then, a few nights ago, I crouched in the dining room (mum walks from her bedroom, through the dining room, to get to the kitchen). I closed the door between the dining room and kitchen, and turned off the light...then, just as she walked past, I yelled and grabbed her leg at the same time. She screamed such an ear piercing scream, that me ears were almost ringing. Pay back :)

The drive from Tamworth to Lismore is about 5.5-6 hours. I spent about 5 hours of the trip singing at the top of my lungs (I love doing that!). I didn't sing at the top of my lungs the whole time, in truth, cause it hurts your throat after a while, so I toned it down sometimes :) Singing is such a fun way to pass the time! It's especially good on long trips if you have recently purchased an album, gives you time to listen to the whole thing and pick your favourites, then repeat the ones you really like, so you can attempt to learn all the words...or, in my case today, learn a couple of lines from each song, and then get them mixed up accidentally, and sing songs that make no sense :)

I did not stop to rescue any animals this time (I didn't see any that needed rescuing...otherwise I probably would have).
On the drive from Brisbane to Tamworth, I drove past a turtle, in a 100k zone, that was in the middle of the other side of the road, so I turned around and parked near it. The the rescue mission was on!
I picked it up and immediately had visions of it flicking its head around and biting my fingers, so when it moved it's head slightly as I was carrying, I instinctively dropped it (from a bit of a height) onto the road...poor thing! Attempt two at relocating it, and I picked it up and put it in the grass on the side of the road, but not before it peed on me! There I was, trying to save its life, and it has the nerve to pee on me? What's with that!? Anyway, I'm hoping it survived, not that I'll ever know. I should've taken it with me to Tamworth, mum would've loved that! I would've called it Michelangelo, put a bandanna on it, and fed it pizza, oh how 80s tv has misinformed a generation!

So, I made it to Lismore! Relatively unscathed! (I did spill half a can of Sprite on my lap while I was driving...not cool!) I'm now at my friend Amanda's house for a couple of nights...she got me strawberry filled chocolate eggs for Easter! She's the greatest friend ever!

To end, my favourite joke at the moment:
Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Cause if they flew over the bay, they'd be bay-gulls!

HILARIOUS!!