We found a sign on the side of the road and i guess you could say it just fit.

As you can see David is all about the Sub of the Way.

Don't forget to check out what Gareth is up to over at the Dekline site.

Alex, David, and Abdias check out a rail in Vegas on the recent trip out there.

Gareth jumps for joy because hes on the road again. This time with the Dekline guys.

Looks like youngin's David and Abdias landed themselves in jail the other night for skating in Denver. 10 hours later and they were calling me to give the heads up on their future court appearances. Respect.

David boardslides in Vegas as a onlooker gets in the way of the shot.

If you're in the Escondido area May 3rd make sure to stop by for some flat bar skating and BBQing.

We're all back to either Sunny San Diego, Sunny Los Angeles, or Sunny Colorado. On a different note. chris nieratko sent in some footage from this contest.

Started off another day at the park. It was still cold out.


Gareth skated the outside part of the park. Heres a front blunt on the rainbow ledge.


Then he ran into something with his neck.


The contest ended today and all the results were announced.


Product was tossed.


Then we took a group vote and Mall of America won as the activity to do tonight.


Let the fun begin.












The team bought some tickets this time to go on some rides before it closed.






Even the shopping section of the mall is huge.




One last photo to wrap up. We are heading back home tomorrow morning. Goodbye Minneapolis. Thanks for the good times. And by that we mean Mall of America.

The view outside my hotel room was not looking very friendly. And I don't mean that because there was kids shouting "Top Shop" and lighting fireworks at odd hours of the night until police arrived. I meant it because it was snowing out, bro.


I know theres kids in Antarctica or Alaska or some other cold place like the North Pole right now saying "those stupid Californians think that is snow, thats like a nice day here in _____(insert Antarctica, Alaska, or North Pole). But thats fine, I'm spoiled in San Diego I know. I don't even go outside my house if its cloudy out.


You can barely even see those cars theres so much snow piled on them.


That's our whip right there. Notice how I only shot the photo of like half the car well thats because I was just driving it and the snow came off the windows in the front. But I was trying to make this photo look epic and make you feel bad for us.


We sat at the booth again and this time we came equipped with a tv and dvd player. It looked like we were playing the new Lurk Fest video from far away.


But we were playing this work out video instead. It was left in the dvd player that the shop gave us so we just rolled with it. Now all these kids are going to have buns of steel. Sorry that was weird.


I made everyone limbo for product today. Good idea huh.


nice photo...or not.


dont know what to say dont know what to say dont know what to say.


This is awkward looking. And I apologize.


dont know what to say dont know what to say dont know what to say.


This dude is seriously being serious about this. bro.


When I was walking around I checked out the Osiris booth and noticed they have a couple Foundation shoes on Display. What do you think?


David tried to take some peoples money in dice.


Then we all went to the boss mans Hotel to meet up for some dinner.


They got good blogging materials at there hotel in downtown Minneapolis. We took advantage.


Below are the photos I got when I said "quick guys look cool".


I give you weird photo number 1.


Followed by way weirdest photo number 2. What a clever bunch of fellas.


After dinner with the boss man we decided to all head back to the park for the launch ramp contest they were hosting.


As you can see I put a ton of effort into both of these last photos. Shot from my digi cam on top of a ramp a million miles away from all the action. Oh well. One more day in Minneapolis...

We made it to the park bright and early.


The park was looking pretty big. Extreme like almost.




We were like the main sponsors in case you forgot.


A lot of teams showed up.


There was not only a skate competition going on but also a tradeshow.


We showcased all the new Foundation stuff.


And also let these guys show off some stuff.


The scene in the cold and damp and cold and really cold tradeshow area that was kinda cold.


There is something like 10,000 lakes wherever we're at and we were trying to squeegee one of them into the drain so people didn't have to take a boat across to get to our booth.


The team was looking pretty cold.


Ok thats better. Burger King pit stop. Heres a update on the night. Its snowing. And everyone but David because he is not of age and that would be illegal is on a party bus headed downtown to the bars...Heres a brief look into tomorrows schedule. Wait for it wait for it. Oh Yeah its the same thing as today, minus the party bus.

So we're headed out to Minneapolis from San Diego for the Top Shop competition. We started the day off with some McDonalds in the San Diego airport.


We flew over the rocky mountains(i think) on our way to Denver to get on the connecting flight to Minneapolis...


Found David in the Denver airport smoking lounge handling business.


Bart was the designated cart for bags pusher. Sorry Bart.


First stop directly off the airplane was Mall Of America. Duh.


Roller coaster inside the mall is looking preeetty good.


Lego Land...




This guy was here.


Bart was pretty excited little to say. More updates coming...

Maybe Gareth will show off his butt boarding skills at 3rd Lair this weekend. See you all there.

Tomas Gorostiaga from Argentina sent in some demo pics from the boys far far away. Thomas has a website and if you want you can look at it.












Look Nick and Johnny even made it on the site.

Burnt.


Burnter.


"Hey what dream catcher do you think I should get?"


Abdias and David sit down for a much needed solid meal after having non stop David gas station snacks for 4 hours straight.

Head on over to The Skateboard Mag website to check out Abdias's Mag a Minute.

Mr. Angel Ramirez himself will be shredding in the Skate Rock Tour. Keep a eye out for him.

Which socks do you like the best:

Star and Moon all over
Lumberjack
Star and Moon big

To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?To Bad that the button doesn't work huh?

I just wanted a reason to say Caliente...

Take a looksie over at the Vans site for more updates from his epic adventures.

What happends when Abdias is blogging Bart and Bart is blogging Abdias and the Hoover Dam is involved and I'm in the mix of blogging. Shit son thats a lot of blogging.


Gareth was in the mood of being blogged and not blogging.


Thats like 10 new friends on myspace if you gave them all your URL and told them to add you.


The Hoover Dam is the new In N Out. The meet up spot.

That was the most retarded post I've ever made. And I respect it.

Some of the Foundation team will be in Minneapolis next week visiting the Top Shop event that Foundation is sponsoring. Gareth Stehr, Abdias Rivera, Angel Ramirez and David Reyes will make the treck out.

Toy Machine teams up with Foundation for a little trip in South America.

GarethStehr.com coming in very hot Summer 08...

Wake up and walk downstairs to the car with only being able to look and not touch all the fun games that take your money along the way.


Light up a rail down the street from the strip.


With your main man Gareth Stehr.


Have in depth conversations with the photographer that ends with a hug.

I dropped Abdias off this morning after a long week in pheonix, vegas and san diego.




After that I decided to swing by the Active Battle of the Shops contest they were holding at there headquarters.

The course for this years contest was looking pretty good.




We had a Foundation team signing in Sun Diego before the contest started


Abdias


Alex


Corey


David


Gareth


Nuge


Sierra
















After the signing the team skated the contest.


David back overcrook.


Abdias on the course.


Gareth gap to bluntslide.


Sierra nollie flip boardslide.


Sierra landed wrong during the contest and thinks he broke his foot. So he had it checked out by the medic.


The team was there in full support mode.


After the contest David packed up and said goodbye to California and hello to Colorado and the taxes he's about to pay. See you all next year.

We checked out a double set. But things were not going our way.


Goodbye double set...


Matt Ball showed us around again.


Went to this ditch spot.


Saw this sweet car and figured I'd blog it.


I'd say we ate In N out almost every single day so far on this trip.


David taking it easy...


What the...yeah there was a tumbleweed at the spot.


It tumbled onto our car. Or not. Whatever.


Goodbye Vegas. We need to leave and make our way back to San Diego for Spring Break Yo Self. See everyone at the Foundation signing at 2pm Saturday.

Hotel life at a casino is funny.


On the way to the car we have to pass through here.




This dude was deff. not with us. Nice Mohawk.

We had a little shindig with Pharmacy planned at 5pm. Ragdoll made it out.


You would think the green shirt that Gareth is wearing would symbolize all the money he has won so far in Vegas. Well lets just say thats not the case here. Whatever the color of being down a couple hundred is he should be wearing.


We all loaded into our vehicles and drove to the skate spot that we would be judging a contest at. Some chose cars others chose motorcycles.


We were rolling deep.


The spot was like this slab of concrete with homemade obstacles.


We held a best trick contest on the handrail.




Bart watch out theres a lifted truck about to run your ass over.


Matt Ball showed up.


David and Alex helped judge the contest.


This kid is the winner. I forget your name but I don't forget the switch heelflip bluntslide you did down the rail. After the contest we decided to hit the streets again to skate. Little did we know we would run into a little problem.


But with our quick instincts a bad situation turned good real quick. Heres the story. So we went to look at a rail. Security drove up so without even questioning it we just got in our cars and tried to leave. We weren't even skating the rail. Just looking. Anyways the security guard took all our plates down and tried to somewhat block us in. We broke free and just left peacefully. Little did we know we were being followed by him. Little did he know he picked a van full of dance party music listening kids to mess with.


So we did the smart thing and kept driving. Then stopping. Then driving. Then stopping. Seeing how far we could push him. We would just drive in circles around a median in the road, he followed. It was 3am in a residential area so no one was out but us. Then we did the smart thing and flipped the script on him. We blocked the security guard in on the main street so he couldn't leave. And then got out and talked to him. He immediately said he would go about his way. See with some quick thinking like us you can get yourself out of any situation. Goodnight.

We met up with the Pharmacy guys so they could show us around.


The first spot was this ditch.




David got tech at the next ditch spot.


art.


art.


David cruising the streets.

We picked up Gareth at the airport.


And loaded up the van after phoenix am to head to Vegas...


Typical


We stopped off at the Hoover Dam on the way...




I'm gonna go ahead and say we made it to our destination.

Foundation is hosting the Spring Break Yo'Self After Party @ Sand Bar. Don't miss it!