Lum and Abner

Last weekend, Margo and I and a couple friends went to Mena for the weekend. We enjoy going to Mena to visit anytime but this particular weekend was the Lum and Abner Festival. If you don't know who Lum and Abner are click here. A brief description is they were a comedy radio team in the heyday of radio. Their show was the most popular radio show for several years. Anyway, these two guys were from Mena (and I just read that they both graduated from the UofA). The Lum and Abner festival is Mena's biggest festival during the year. It has been going on for a long time, as far back as I can remember. When I was a kid they had arts and crafts, fishing derby, and 3 on 3 basketball. I am sure they had more but that is what I remember. It has become a lot bigger deal now with lots more events. They had the above mentioned things along with quilt show, firemen challenge, live music, antique car show (they had 150 cars this year), pancake breakfast, bbq cookoff, and more. My two favorite things they have now is the baby crawling contest and the ice melting contest. The ice melting was they had 10 pound blocks of ice and the first one to melt their block using only body heat won. They had four heats and then a championship. Here is a video I took of it.

I just had to share the random awesomness with all of you.

We had lots of fun over the weekend with our friends who went with us and our friends we stayed with. We spent some time in the hot tub and a lot of time playing Beatles Rockband. It was a really good time. All of you who live in Arkansas should go check out Lum and Abner Festival sometime.