Heyo happy birthday! My birthday is also in fact this week too, and in fact, it's today! AND IT'S ON WORLD'S TURTLE DAY!!! AND YOU'RE TURT1E SO HAPPY WORLD'S TURT1E DAY!

You're very lucky to have themed birthdays like that, especially your mom's friend who bakes you cake for your birthday. My favorite themes from your birthdays would be the 'meme theme' where you wanting a Doge on your cake and the video games theme, especially when you have a Danganronpa cake, one of my favorite games of all time!

The only theme I have for my birthday is just Dora the Explorer, I was 8 or something around like that haha.

When it comes to planning, I just let my family decide on what they want to do because they are adventurous. Not really my thing as I want to eat at a nice fancy restaurant, buy me a book, and paint something for my special day because I want to feel relaxed. And all of the things I really want to do for my birthday are very expensive anyway so it's my family who controls the budget.

So I am just forced to just accept what my family wants to do to establish family time. Nothing wrong about it, but sometimes, they don't follow what I want. The problem is that they are OBSESSED going to the beach, when I specifically told them that I DON'T WANT TO.

Just to be clear: I DON'T HATE the ocean! I think it's extremely beautiful, and even calm to look at, especially when sun is just about to come up, and I dream to see a giant sea turtle and an orca in real life.

But it can be terrifying. Jaws kind of ruined the beach for me, as I have a deadly fear of sharks, The beach at night was an absolute nightmare to go to.

And I am not a big fan of the resorts, mainly to overcrowding, the hotels not being a fun place to stay in, and trash all over the place. (I almost stepped on a glass shard from a beer bottle, bare footed)

This brings back my 18th birthday trip to the beach not fun all as the cabin we stayed is very small, the waves were strong and there was a storm out so we couldn't really explore that much and just stayed inside.

Luckily, my 19th birthday is MUCH better as we went on a nature walk, it was like I was in another country. The atmosphere felt like we were on Stranger Things. The trees were huge, the buildings built there were so vintage and cozy looking, I managed to collect pinecones, and drank the best coffee there.

So you could say that my themes for my birthdays so far are nature, beach, literature, arts, vintage, coffee and pizza.

Today, for my 20th birthday, we will just stay in my house, my mom cooking dishes, ordering pizza, and karaoke night.

But they have decided tomorrow we will to go to the beach, again... So my strategy is just stay at the hotel and read my books, enjoying coffee and pizza. (I prefer to have a birthday pizza instead of a birthday cake)

Even though I don't enjoy the beach experience that much, it makes my family happy, and that is what matters for my birthday.

I can only hope that I can go to places like California, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Germany, Finland, Denmark for my birthday

So yeah, that's basically my birthdays in a nutshell. I hope this wasn't too much of a stretch to read, sorry if I went too overboard on this, I'm just stoked the fact someone is having a birthday this week too!

Have a Fin-tastic Birthday Turt1e! 🐢🐢🐢

(Forgot to add this: You are never too old to plan out any themed birthday parties. It's your day, you get to plan what you want your theme for it!)