I was in the Guinness Book of World Records!

     On Monday October 15, 1979, I joined a group of 1800+ tap dancers and danced my way down Hennepin Avenue to the song, "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" to help celebrate the opening of the Hennepin Center for the Arts. “Sounds like a herd of buffalo,” said an observer. “Nah, it sounds more like a herd of buffalo wearing tap shoes,” said the observer’s friend. We all wore red, white and blue dance costumes and tapped our way into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people tap dancing to a single piece of music at one time. I was so amazed at how many tap dancers there were all in one place and I remember it being really loud and so much fun! Here's the video if you want to see it! It's kid of long but you can skip ahead to the dancing part!
                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY712_hK6CE
     Going totally off topic--for those that know me, it’s not unusual--it is dance-related, however. When I was in High School, I tried out for and made the All-Stars Just for Kix Dance Team that met in San Diego and danced in the Holiday Bowl halftime show! This was a huge deal because I was one of only five girls in my state to make this team and I had never been away from home by myself before. We learned the dance in the week we were there and performed in a Hawaiian bathing suit and sarong with a beach ball for part of it and it was a blast! One thing they weren’t thinking about in choreographing our dance was that the field would be all tore up from the football players. There were a couple moves that put us on the ground so we ended up getting kind of muddy! Halfway through the dance, we were supposed to throw the beach ball into the crowd and I was so bummed that I didn’t get to keep it. Some girls kept them anyway, but it was fun watching all those balls bouncing around up in the stands. I bought a video of the performance, but one of my parents accidentally videotaped one of my brother's football games over a part of it.
     Anyway, these are the two times in my life where I was almost famous!