:hippo:
Some of you may wonder why I like this emoji and put it on the forum. I did it for myself as it reminds me of the Dancing Hippos from the original movie "Fantasia".
All good, nothing strange. BUT, in 1994 while my daughter was ice dance training for Nationals and on the ice at 6am 4 mornings a week, I decided to take some ice skating lessons and a few other beginning lady ice skaters decided to do a comedy number in the upcoming local competition. We decided to be the hippos that danced to the music of that Hippo number from "Fantasia". We had a Prima ballerina hippo, with 4 corps de ballet hippos. I was in the corps de ballet. We wore grey sweat suits, tiara's and the Prima had a pull on white ballet tutu, and the corps had on pink ballet tutu's. We slaughtered that number, went over the time allowed, and the other group got first, but our group came in second.
The judges usually hated these types of numbers, but the judges this night laughed so hard they had tears coming down their faces.
The 5 of us, had young people coming up to us wanting to be a hippo and do this with us. The parents were still smiling.
My one and only time of competing in ice skating. 1994.
So, I love this hippo as it reminds me of that night.
And her name is Joy!