wait, why are you back?

Highway Motorist Tip Number One:

Get gas even if you think you have time later! If you don’t, you’ll end up in the middle of nowhere California with no gas station in sight and a beeping gas light!

No guys, we did not run out of gas. Did we almost run out of gas? Possibly! ha. We made it just in time, however, the drive to Lompoc proves to be more “remote” than one would think.

Speaking of Lompoc, HOW awesome is Justine Redding, our amazing campus rep! Her family was fabulous and we loved every minute of it. Her event was really chill and we coin phrased one of our newest favorite terms. Our new friend Ta Ta said “TOMS ALL DAY” and we loved it so much, it’s our new tag line!

We also went to some great retail stores along the way that show the diverse networks of people that buy TOMS. Dressed was a super stylin’ boutique, Esteem was a great surf shop with a laid back vibe, and the guy at Beach House was totally from Argentina and knew the alpargata well! The retailers are doing great jobs and as a broke Vagabond I really have to catch myself or I’d buy all kinds of cute stuff!

LMU was a beautiful campus and Betsy rocks TOMS well! The entire campus shuts down on Tuesday and Thursday and there’s an afternoon period where no one has class at all. It enables people to hang out on the alumni mall and our event got great foot traffic. The Style Your Sole was on fire, some of those girls were really creative with glitter and ribbon!

Yesterday we had to stop by headquarters to scan inventory and drop a few things off. Vaughn from next door had the craziest look on his face when he saw us drive up. We told him the tour was over. He wasn’t the only one that said “Wait, why are you back?” It was fun to see surprised faces.

For now I’ll leave you with some pictures:

Here we are at our launch party. This picture fits us perfectly. Blair’s happy, I’m completely overzealous, and Krysten is looking at me like I’m nuts.. hehe