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A group of us decided to go out to Huntington Beach, CA to see our friends Switchfoot play. Wish we could have gone every day. Great event, great people, and great music.

Jerome Fontamillas of Switchfoot rocks our gear!!!

Big thanks to Kevin and Joyce for the pics!

I can’t list every city they stopped in, but here are the states they traveled through:
Florida—>Alabama—>Mississippi—>Arkansas—>Texas—>New Mexico—>Arizona—>California and flying back to Germany from San Francisco, CA.

I asked them to give me one of their best/strangest parts of the trip thus far, and this is what they had to say:
I think one of our strangest experiences was definitely on the 101. Where the police stopped us. with the hand at the gun and that we should go away from our cycles. The problem was that we were on this part of the 101 (near to Thousand Oaks) prohibited, but we ignored the sign at first because on the Interstate 40 it was also no problem. At the end the officers gave us a guard down from the 101 over the next exit. They stopped the whole exit t lead us down. I think this was a nice picture we two in front of the two police cars and all the traffic behind them. But the officers were really nice people, they gave us no ticket or any other fine. In the opposite way they gave us directions how we were able to arrive Thousand Oaks without using the 101. Other really cool adventures were as we were in the desert of Arizona for shooting or with Josh Surfing…but all in all its nearly impossible to count all the fantastic memories and to tell them. Because such amazing things like these happened all over the States and I think the best memories are all the people which we met on this journey…..

Their other stories are amazing and these are some of the nicest guys I’ve met. They also told us to be sure and look them up if we’re ever in Germany! I hope we will be able to one day.

I believe they made good time so they were able to spend extra days in cities they really loved. I think their plane back to Germany leaves this Thursday. Jan and Chris, it was a pleasure meeting you and good luck in all your future endeavors. I hope we will be able to cross paths again.

This past Saturday Le Grand Cru participated in its first public event. Bro-Am has been going for 6 yrs strong and has partnered with several groups to be active in reaching the needs of homeless youth through an organization called StandUp For Kids. What an incredible event for us to be involved in.

Switchfoot headlined a great line up that included OK GO, The Almost, Young The Giant, and others. There was also a surf competition which included surfers Rob Machado, Tom Curren, and Timmy Curran, and members of Switchfoot. I got a wicked burn, my Seattle skin isn’t used to the Cali sun!

We met amazing people who came to hang &  people who were from other brands/outreaches. It was awesome seeing this many people come together to make a difference in this community.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi and to getting to know what Le Grand Cru is all about. We had some incredible help throughout the day, from the early morning setup, helping out at the table, passing out our flyer/stickers, and take down. Thanks for being part of our CRU, couldn’t have done it without ya’ll! We’ll definitely be back next year!

Timmy Curran, Dynamite Walls, Jon Foreman and Friends, OK Go, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, The Almost, Kate Voegele and Young the Giant.

Here is a list of the vendors sponsoring this event. We are so honored to be part of such an awesome list and excited that this is our first event of this kind!

The event will be held on June 26, 2010 on the Moonlight Beach of Encinitas, CA.
So please come out and support, and stop by our booth to say “hi”!

For more information check out click http://www.switchfoot.com/switchfoot/p/broam

Sorry the announcement is a little late, but @antrants was our winner of the Bobble Giveaway!

Thanks to the people at Bobble and to everyone that entered. Stay tuned, because we have more things for our loyal followers!

So if you read the post about the Bobble, you know I’m a big fan of it. Well, we have a t-shirt of your choice and one Bobble to give to one of our followers! This is going to simply be a Twitter contest, so if you don’t have an account, go sign up now!

All you have to do is:

1) Sign on to Twitter

2) Add @waterbobble

3) Add @LeGrandCru

4) Post the following:

• Have you seen www.waterbobble.com? Follow @waterbobble and @LeGrandCru to win a tshirt and a Bobble! http://bit.ly/9IPyTM #Bobble

Contest will end on World Water Day, March 22, 2010 @ 11:59PM PST. Winner will be notified by Twitter Direct Message on Tuesday March 23, 2010 (so if you delete us and we can’t Direct Message you, we will choose another winner). Thank you to our good friends at Bobble for this giveaway!

Rules are subject to change without any prior notice.

Congrats to Chanelle! Enjoy the Zumi and the shirts!!!

Thank you again to the good people of Photojojo. Remember to keep checking out their site for awesome products!

To all our new friends! We have multiple ways to stay informed with what we do. Please add us if you’re a part of any of these social mediums!

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And if you have any other questions, feel free to email us at: questions@legrandcru.us

Thanks!