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Participating in simple living can very often mean not going out and finding other ways to occupy one's time. Fortunately, it can mean learning a lot of new things. This weekend we were lucky enough to be able to learn out to make our own sushi!!!!

Lots of yummy yummy shrimp waiting to be made into yummy yummy sushi...

One of the CVVs Haley has quite the fella for a boyfriend. Clayton lives in Denver and was kind enough to come over and bring all the goodies (we chipped in to pay him back) and share his sushi-making skills!

Lianne is making sushi with shrimp, cream cheese, and bell peppers. Tip: freezing the cream cheese makes it easier to work with.

Captivated, obviously...

Since I am clearly not the sit back and watch type, I jumped in as soon as I could. I decided to go with salmon, scallions, cucumber and some crunchy tempura (because who doesn't love crunchy stuff??)

I decided to go with the avocado on top, just for fun!

Here is the final product!! Mine is snugly set next to Heidi's creation (which involved some delicious sriracha aioli). Tip: When you are putting something on top (fish, avocado, etc), wrap the roll in saran wrap and then cut it to help get a cleaner cut

Tom is not a sushi eater. So while we all had a blast making our own sushi, he had a blast watching us while eating a PB&J!!

In order that he not be left out, we decided to make him some PB&J sushi style:

Here is the WONDERFUL chef who taught us so well and his lovely lady!!!

THANKS CLAYTON AND HALEY!!