Why did the Chicken cross the Road?

So I guess it's about time for the Chicken story. Many of you have either heard of the chicken or have been members of chicken picture taking events. The saga of the chicken began when Jason went to a hockey game and there was this random person with a chicken hand puppet watching the game and very seriously having the chicken watch as well. We were cracking up when he told us the story because apparently he was all about the chicken hand puppet.

A few weeks later Maia e-mailed him to ask him to send a monthly report. Jason thought she was joking so he went online and searched for a picture of a chicken hand puppet and sent it to her as his monthly report. We were very excited to have a chicken face to put with our chicken story and so when Jason went out on the boat for a few days we decided to make a picture with the chicken in it and put it on his desktop for when he came back. So when he got back to the office and started up his computer it began singing the chicken dance and had a picture of the chicken at the 'wedding of the year'.

From there we just went out of control with adding the chicken into as many pictures as we could. He took a hot air balloon ride, hung out by the pool in the Bahamas, went diving, gave awards, joined the crew of The Life Aquatic, performed medical procedures (including a sonogram on Holly before Ellie was born), and performed in the Nutcracker.

At Christmas that year Jason went online and found a place he could buy the same chicken hand puppet we had been using in our pictures. And so instead of adding him into pictures we could actually put him in the picture! He has traveled to Ireland, Hungary, Montana, Texas, Greece, Oregon, all the parks out west, West Virginia, New England, climbed Rainier, and took a cruise to the Caribbean.
The chicken has been rather quiet this year, but judging from the embedded video below, he was apparently practicing and qualifying for the Olympics. I tell you, he is a busy busy chicken! Check out his many travels at The Chicken Website.