Our Mardi Gras crew, we have pub crawls, we do a golf tournament, we have a ball, and we have our chicken run, which is one of our biggest signature events we've brought here. So I'll explain what a chicken run is.

So, in South Louisiana, before Lent for Mardi Gras - during Lent, a lot of people didn't eat certain foods, right? We don't have meat on Sunday. But, back in the day, way back in the day before, you know, all of us were around, they would not eat a lot of other vegetable or other items as well. So what they would do on Mardi Gras is they would cook everything so it didn't spoil over Lent. So that's where the big feast comes in. And so everybody would pitch in for that. So they started going from house to house, and they would ask for ingredients for this gumbo. So from house to house they would go, they may get onions, bell peppers, celery, rice, flour, whatever is needed for a gumbo. The last item would be the meat, which would be a chicken.

So the story goes that there was an old farmer that a bunch of people went over to his house and said, “Hey, could we get a chicken for our gumbo?” And he's like, “Well, you know, I have this old chicken out there that I can never catch, and he's mean. If you can catch him, he's yours.” So they went out there and chased that chicken and caught him and that was where the meat came from. And so that's where the story starts. So, now it's just a tradition. They go from house to house and they throw out a chicken and you catch it, and they don't harm the chickens anymore. But it's a big, it is a huge thing in South Louisiana. So we've tried to bring that here to Galveston.

The more free range they are, the harder they are to catch. If you get a small, fast chicken, yes. Now we do mark off the area. So, because we had, one year, we didn't mark it off very well and we were chasing the chicken for a couple of hours because he went under the building and out in the field. So now we fence it off pretty well. And we have people stand around it to keep him inside it. But yeah, it's hard to catch them. Now in Louisiana, there's no fencing or anything like that. So when they throw that chicken out, if you're - and they make them wait a minute, you know? Like we do when we throw it out of our barn, it has to hit the ground before you can move.

And they, you know, and people think you just go, you know, you think, “Oh, I could grab a chicken. It's no big deal.” But when you're when you're right in front of it and you go to grab it and it moves real fast, it's not as easy as you think.