This weekend Jill and I ventured into the world of cooking turkey. It was both our first real hands on experience doing everything. With the help of a few phone calls to Jill's mom we were able to pull it off.

This is me making the turkey dance.

This is me trying to remove things from the neck...not very easy.

This is the birds eye view when I was removing the insides...

This is me discovering that the whole back end of the turkey lifts up and you don't have to go in through the neck...and they still gave me an engineering degree can you believe it?

Once we actually finished cooking everything we forgot to take a final picture to show off our masterpiece....but you've all seen a cooked turkey so whatever...but it was awesome and we had a good time preparing it.

The thing about hosting a big meal is that you get a lot of leftovers. And when you have a lot of leftovers you tend to keep eating them...so I suppose by Friday I'll have maybe finished everything but until then my belly is going to stay nice and round.