Windells Academy is in full swing, even during the summer months.
Skiing and boardin’ in the summer time makes summer classes really not that bad.
Recently, the crew went to the Grenade office in Portland.
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Today we all woke up at 7:30 to get ready and ride at Timberline Lodge.
The weather wasn?t exactly cooperating so we needed an alternate plan.
We decided to go to breakfast at the windells campus.
It was a great breakfast with Belgian waffles and sausage.
Luckily there were workers there and said we would be able to get a tour of their office.
We finished up our bouncing on the trampolines and headed for the road.
It was about an hour drive to get to Portland.
Off to Grenade we went.
We found our way to the Grenade headquarters.
As we pulled into the parking lot a white Lamborghini ripped past us, which was awesome.
So we parked in the guest area and walked on into the office complex.
As we got off the elevator at the second floor the door was directly on our left.
We could obviously tell it was Grenade by all the gloves on the walls.
When we walked in and the Grenade executive VP, Nick, greeted us.
I actually saw two pairs that I previously owned.
There were also some giant paper mache glove models on the floor, which were epic.
So far this whole experience was sick and it was just the beginning.
In it there was this giant hat that was a size 16!
It was absolutely massive.
Nick and Jared tried it on and took some pretty funny pictures with it.
Our next stop in the tour was a room with all their stickers and sticker machines.
They had all their custom stickers on one wall that were made for shops and other companies all over.
They even had a Windells one!
Nick told us to help ourselves to a couple stickers.
I picked out the coolest ones I saw of course.
I saw a couple examples and took some pictures.
I wasn?t sure if they were just prototypes or their actual next year?s line.
We continued our tour and stopped in another office with their prototype shoes.
They had about a hundred different colors and models all stacked on the shelves and floor.
We looked at them for a couple minutes then moved on.
Nick then told us he had a rack of clothes out front that we could help ourselves to.
I got a super nice pair of new kicks and a nice down coat.
I tried it on and took some funny pictures with it.
We thanked Nick and headed out to our next stop on our Portland adventure.
Our next stop was the biggest bookstore in the world, Powell?s.
We wandered around for about forty-five minutes.
Nick bought three Star Wars books to give to a worker at timberline in exchange for mounting his skis.
I did not purchase any books, but I thought the store was extremely extraordinary.
We left the store and went to a local donut shop called Voodoo Donuts.
Voodoo Donuts is a popular stop in Portland for a quick bite of some of the best donuts around.
They even had a donut covering in cereal.
I bought a giant glazed donut that is pretty much the size of my head.
We left Voodoo and walked to the waterfront where there was a fair going on.
We got there and everything was already closed up because of an oncoming storm.
