Iowa Rock-n-Roll

On Thursday night this week I was the Master of Ceremonies for the Iowa Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Rock the Roof concert. The Iowa Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame is in Arnold's Park, which is a community about 30 minutes from Estherville and every Thursday through the summer months that have concerts in their Pavilion. Each Thursday a different DJ or radio station employee from an area radio station gets to be the MC for the night.

They had two bands. The first band was the Coachmen 4. They had played together on and off since the early 60's and were once called the Hooterville Fire Department before they changed their name to the Coachmen 4. The second band, 2004 inductees to the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Senders, were really good. They have been playing together for 44 years. My guess is they're still as good today as they were 40 years ago.

Not only is the Hall of Fame in Arnold's Park it is also adjacent to an amusement park called Arnold's Park. While I was busy doing the MC thing, Sara Beth took the boys to the amusement park for some fun...

They let Parker ride with Kallsen on this slow moving children's ride. You can't see in this picture but Kallsen held on to Parker's knee the whole ride...just like his Mama told him to do. Sara said both boys laughed and laughed the hole time on the ride.

I just hope Joseph understands that bumper cars and real cars are two different things. I guess we have six years to make sure he figures that out...

Needless to say, these are things that just were not available to us living in Georgia.