• Girls trip to Singapore

    Girls trip to Singapore

    First things first: Singapore is a fantastic destination for a girls trip. There’s shopping, nightlife, great restaurants, and tons to see and do (including plenty of Insta-ready photo spots). I did a girls trip to Singapore a few years ago, right around the time Crazy Rich Asians came out, and we also happened upon the […]

  • Fukushuen Garden in Okinawa

    Family photos at Fukushuen Garden in Okinawa | Photo by Heather Johnson Photos

    A few weeks before everything shut down, we had photos taken at Fukushuen Garden in honor of Arabella’s first birthday. I had never been to Fukushuen Garden before, but I’m really glad we decided to do the photo session there because it is gorgeous! The beaches in Okinawa are really incredible, but after a maternity […]

  • Visiting Disney with a baby

    Visiting Disney with a baby

    The idea of visiting Disney with a baby may be pretty intimidating—we definitely got a lot of “you must be nuts” looks when we told people we were taking Arabella to Hong Kong Disneyland when she was 100 days old (this was before the protests got big and before coronavirus). But visiting Disney with a […]

  • New Year’s at Tokyo Disney (and a giveaway!)

    We have spent New Year’s Eve at Disney World in Florida and at Disneyland in California in the past, so when we were thinking about what we wanted to do this year for New Year’s, we had pretty much decided on either Shanghai Disney or Tokyo Disney. We settled on Tokyo Disney… and then learned […]

  • Long weekend in Goa

    Goa surf rescue

    I had been obsessed with visiting India for almost 20 years by the time I moved to Bahrain, so obviously it was at the top of our “to go” list from the beginning. The country is so vast and magical that you definitely need more than a few days to even get a feel for […]