Ammon had a summer break from the golf course he works at in July; it shuts down for maintenance for 3 weeks in July due to the course not being busy because of the heat. He scheduled a trip to come visit Salmon during that time, and he stopped in Vegas to stay with his friend Tim on the way, too. We ended up meeting Ammon in Utah on his drive home from Arizona on Monday, July 17. He'd bought a new car before his trip, but the trade-in offer from the dealership wasn't good, so he decided to bring his college car back to Idaho to sell. However, on the drive home, it was overheating when he was driving around Vegas, so Josh and I left Salmon on Monday morning as he left Vegas that same morning. We drove the truck with the flatbed car-hauler trailer to meet up with him--we planned to meet up in Ogden, but we'd go further if the car didn't make it that far. We hung out with Amanda and Ryan for 2 and a half hours at their house, and Amanda did my hair while we waited for Ammon to arrive. Thankfully, he didn't have any further problems after Vegas, and he met us at Amanda's house. After he got there, he and Josh tied it down onto the trailer and then we drove back home. (We had the problem fixed after we brought it home, and we sold it a few weeks later for him.)
On Tuesday evening, Ammon and Josh golfed at men's league. We all got off work early on Wednesday afternoon to spend the day together. We floated from 11 mile to Shoup Bridge. Kanyon rode in the kayak, Josh and I were in the double tube, and Ammon was in a single tube. He's apparently already acclimated to the hot Arizona weather, because he thought it was SO cold! For the first half hour, he did everything he could to avoid putting his butt in the water! It was hilarious to watch! Eventually, he gave in and finally adjusted to the water temperature. When we got back, we hosted a dinner with grandma and grandpa and Great Grandma. Josh grilled steaks and I made creamy corn and veggie spaghetti salad. After the dinner guests left, we played the card game SkyJo. It was a fun day with our kids!
On Thursday, Ammon drove over to Anaconda to golf. When he got back around 8pm, he picked up Eli and brought him & his puppy Athena to our house. The boys played XBox games, and then we grilled steaks again and ate together. Afterwards, we played Ticket to Ride and Eli won, which was good since Kanyon beat everybody in Call of Duty and Tetris.
Ammon wanted to go to the new Highlander restaurant in the old King's building while he was here, so I took him and Kanyon there for lunch on Friday. They tried some new flavors of pizza slices and I ordered the giant nachos. Josh, Ammon, and I left Salmon after work that evening at 5:00pm to head to the Idaho Falls airport. His flight was scheduled to depart at 9:30. However, when we showed up at the airport at 8:00, we learned that his flight was delayed an hour. He flew out about the time Josh and I got back to Salmon! It was so wonderful having Ammon back home for a few days! It had been almost a year since his last visit to Salmon. We've really missed him!
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