Zoë Johnson

It's now been almost a week since I've got back and I have only just fully recovered from my jet lag! It's been a wonderful week being reunited with friends, family and my lovely dogs, and I've also started making a few changes to myself and the blog!! Change Number One: New hair!! Almost the first day home I went to the hairdressers and made a spur of the moment decision to get my hair cut short! I had gotten so sick of it during our travels so I was definitely ready for the change! However it really shocked my family as I've had long hair forever and they never expected me to actually go through with it! And here it is! I am very happy with it, it's a lot easier to manage now! Change Number Two: New blog name! I also have decided to change the name of my blog from zoenailust to 'Dots Above The E', as I'm not just writing about nails anymore and I wanted a new name that could include everything I wanted to blog about and that would be s...

Hello everyone! Tom and I are officially settled back into UK life! To celebrate our return we held a dinner party for both of our families. We decided on a menu that would give everyone a taste of the USA! We chose typically American dishes and made everything in miniature! Here is the menu! Appetizers: Chips n dips Entrées: Deep dish pizzas Hot Dogs Soft Tacos Burgers Philly Cheesesteaks Served with salad and fries! Desserts: Strawberry cheesecake Blueberry pancakes Brownies It was a super fun night, we all ate far too much, which is always good!! We also gave our families the gifts we had brought back with us which was lovely. :) Here are a few photos of what we made (though not everything, as my camera died halfway through the evening!) Zoë x

First video on my Youtube account is a video edit made by Tom and I (mostly Tom!) of our recent trip to America! Zoë x

On Tuesday 18th July Tom and I began a series of journeys that would take us back home! Our first flight from San Francisco to Seattle was late afternoon, which meant we could actually sleep in!! After we had woken up and finished packing our bags we went back to the Westfield Mall for breakfast, as Tom was jealous of the crepe I'd had yesterday!! We then went back to our hotel and waited for our shuttle to the airport!  When we got to San Francisco airport we were sent on a wild goose chase to find the right place to check in, each person seemed to point us in a different direction!!! We were then put on an earlier flight to Seattle, which was good as we would then have more time to spare before our next flight!! The airplane taking us to Seattle was tiny and we were there in about 2 hours! There were some amazing views throughout the short journey, we even think we saw Mount St Helens! When we landed in Seattle we had a lot of time to kill before our n...

Today we were up pretty early as we had a lot to fit in!! The first thing we did after leaving the hotel was get a streetcar to the place where our tour was leaving, which was really cool!! We then boarded the open air tour bus which took us through a bit of San Francisco and over Golden Gate Bridge! Typically, the top part of the bridge was in the fog, but it actually made the pictures look pretty cool! It was really amazing to see it, it's such a cool piece of engineering!!  The bus then dropped us back in Fishermans Wharf where we then got lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp, which was right at the end of Pier 39 and had lovely views over the Pacific! We got popcorn shrimp to start and then I had the Of course we have scampi pasta and Tom had Forrest's seafood feast! The food was great and we love how it was Forrest Gump themed! Made Tom want to watch the film!  After lunch we did a bit of gift shopping on Pier 39, saw the beautiful sea lions and then walked to the bottom of Lombard...

Today we got our last ever bus from LA to San Francisco! It was a pretty good journey as journeys go and the bus had wifi!!! Before we left we had breakfast at our hotel- more waffles!!!  For lunch we had a subway at a truck stop, yay!  We got in to San Francisco at about 8pm and went to bed!! Tomorrow is our last day in America! Zoë x

Today we begin our series of bus journeys back to San Francisco, where we will then fly home!!!  We slept in til 9 am and then got breakfast at the hotel!! Made our own waffles in a scary machine that didn't like Tom very much!!  We then went out to The Strip to do some last minute shopping before catching our bus! We got some great gifts and Tom got some very cheap Levi's jeans in Urban Outfitters which he was very chuffed about!! We also got lunch in Starbucks, yay!!  Then we got on our bus to LA. It was another awful journey... The woman in front of us thought she would grave everyone with her beautiful taste in music by playing it out loud, full volume. We weren't such happy bunnies!! We got dinner at a Burger King at a truck stop, I wish they did chicken fries back home!!!  We got in to LA at 10pm and went straight to our hostel!! Tomorrow we go to San Fran!! Zoë x