Happy Birthday To Meeee – 32!

Well today is my 32nd birthday and yeah I feel old.  I miss my 20’s!

So far my birthday has been great, but I’ve only been awake for a few hours.  I can now talk about my super birthday present though!  I’ve been keeping it somewhat secret for the last week because I wanted to post about it on my birthday.

For my birthday Xander bought me this 360 liter (95 gallon) aquarium for my two slider turtles, Frick! and Radar.   I had seen it on a 2nd hand site here in NL for only 250 euros, which was an amazing deal since it wasn’t even a year old yet and was well over 600 euros new.   They will be able to live in this aquarium for a very very long time.

He also made me this temporary enclosure for the top so I could have a semi-above tank basking area for the turtles, until we are able to make a proper above tank area like on our other tank.

He also bought me an Eheim Professional II 2028 filter so that I could set it up and have the turtles in it before my birthday.

I have the coolest husband alive who gives the most AWESOME gifts!!!

I absolutely love it!!  It looks so great in the house and it also meant that we could move our other turtle, Stelo, up into the 180 liter (55 gallon) tank.

I made a little video of the turtles swimming around in the tank, you’ll have to forgive the cheezy music in the background.  I was too lazy to look for something good to play and just picked one of the samples that came with Windows Movie Maker haha

Today I’m totally chilling out with some girlie movies and taking it easy, and tonight my husband is cooking Peach Chicken (my favorite of all the things he cooks) for me.   This is a great birthday so far!

Oh and a big super duper mega thank you to our friends Paule and Warnoud for helping us get the tank home last Saturday!  Love you guys!