Nice game!
Your reluctance to go Hippo was, in part, responsible for the creation of the def Hippo club which is now a fully blown vote chess club with a great team and a full VC schedule, charging into the future like a... well... uh... a thundering Hippopotamus.
The amateur league season started with a win for me. No reason to brag: it was at board 8 of team nr. 8 of my club and my opponent a teenage boy, but they can be dangerous! I think the game is interesting for us because it once again illustrates that all our nice mainline studies often don't help us in real life, in this case when White chooses to play Bc4 after having committed to Nc3. I stubbornly refused to play Hippo, consequently had to suffer some weird manouevering in the opening but got a satisfactory result. Maybe I wouldn't do so again, but what happens after ...b5 or ...e6 isn't much more beautiful. We probably have to live with those Bc4 kids.