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ravenclawwolf replied to your post: Home again!

Cool! Where did you go? We had no idea you were leaving…or maybe I just missed that post…. :)

Went to Pittsburgh for a four-day/three-night vacation (which I mentioned on Thursday, unless I forgot...) Basically because my dad wanted to see baseball, which was actually the worst part of the trip because the Tigers were generally horrible (with the exception of Justin Verlander.) Even so, the baseball was fun, and there were a ton of Detroit people who made the trip for the weekend. Probably a third of the stadium was wearing Tigers gear and chanting "Let's go Tigers!" which made a lot of Pirates fans really, really confused. Two of the three games were "Free T-Shirt" and "Free Hat" day, so we also all came home with souvenirs. 

Also saw a lot of local attractions/museums, ran around their downtown/theater district/sports arena areas, and got to go swimming. The art museum was nothing special (or maybe Detroit just has a really great art museum - seriously, this art museum had a decent Impressionist collection but was otherwise really sad compared to Detroit's.) That's okay, because apparently the rich inhabitants of Pittsburgh decided to spend their money on DINOSAURS instead of art - their Museum of Natural History was pretty freaking awesome in the paleontology department. Apparently, they have the oldest T. rex found (the most complete one is in Chicago's Field Museum - idk if it's because I know nothing about paleontology or because they've put in casts where the rest of the skeleton should be or because it's been a long time since I've been in the Field Museum, but I couldn't really tell a difference in terms of complete-ness), as well as a bunch of fairly complete skeletons. It was neat: you can view the fossils from ground level and from up to 2 levels above them. (It was also adorable: they had a plaque stating the "donors who helped finance preservation of the fossils," and assigned each donor a single piece of the skeleton - and they had a computer where you could look up who was assigned what, and some second-grade class had donated as a whole and been assigned one of the T. rex's teeth. I can just imagine a bunch of second-graders going on a field trip to admire the tooth they raised money to help preserve.) 

The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is also pretty fantastic - LOTS OF HILLS, SO MANY HILLS but pretty neat in that those hills allow for seeing, say, the tiger exhibit at multiple levels, or to go underneath the underwater exhibits. And they had things like a baby sea otter that was freaking adorable and a leopard exhibit where the leopard had actually fallen asleep right up against the glass and elephants (although I wonder about the amount of space those elephants have - the zoo near where I live sent its elephants to a wildlife preserve years ago because they were worried it wasn't possible for a zoo to provide adequate roaming space for elephants. But I do have to admit that seeing a baby elephant playing with its mother up close was really cute.)  

So basically it's the first time in years my family's done anything remotely resembling a vacation, and it was fun. I'm still lobbying that we should go somewhere awesome within the next few years - someplace like Europe (and/or maybe also the WWOHP, at least once Universal finishes building whatever expansion they're planning right now) - but it was nice to go somewhere, even if it was only a couple hours away.

I'm quite tired; I was too busy to think about the lack of Internet/computer/writing time because there was always something to do from 8 am-midnight, every day. But it was fun and awesome and people will probably laugh at me for this, but Pittsburgh seems like it would be a great city to live in: their river walk is lovely, they have major supermarket chains and retailers in the city, and one of the Pirates fans I was talking to said that you don't have to own a car if you live in the city because the mass transit is so good. (Everyone laughing: YOU TAKE YOUR MASS TRANSIT SYSTEMS FOR GRANTED. Where it is not "nonexistent," Detroit's mass-transit is terrible horrible no-good very bad awful.) And a city like Pittsburgh isn't overwhelmingly huge like Chicago or Toronto or Atlanta, where part of me always feels a little claustrophobic because there are huge buildings looming over you everywhere. 

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How would you like to be known to history? - The Wise

You enter an enchanted garden. What would you be most curious to examine first? The bubbling pool

 Which would you rather be: Trusted

 What are you most looking forward to learning at Hogwarts? 
Flying on a broomstick (although I was tempted to put "every area" as well, couldn't decide)

 cheating with the quill: tell flitwick the truth

Heads or tails: heads

What are your thoughts? I'm just sitting here feeling like something hit me over the head :/

First off, you're missing a binary question (left/right, forest/river, stars/moon, black/white, or dawn/dusk.) 

You are all over the place with this Sorting, and ultimately I think that it's questions 3 and 4 that put you in Hufflepuff. Putting every area might well have leaned you towards Ravenclaw - it's hard to tell without seeing that last question, but it looks very much like it, especially if that "Tell Flitwick the truth" is the "Tell Flitwick the truth when he asks for it" and not "Tell him before the test." Clarification on those two questions (Tell Flitwick and whatever your other either-or question was) would really help. 

But here's your Sorting, analyzed: 

1. Wisdom - Ravenclaw. You probably guessed this.

2. Luminous pool - Slytherin. Water is Slytherin. (I wonder if, asked for your favorite scent or the potion you'd drink, if you'd get a Ravenclaw answer.) 

3. Trusted is very Hufflepuff. 

4. Broomstick Flying is infrequently chosen. During the Beta, I had a handful of Gryffindors in the majority percentage-wise, but today I've had an influx of Hufflepuffs riding broomsticks and I think that this definitely has some Hufflepuff weighting. (Not Ravenclaw - study everything is the very Ravenclaw answer. In beta, it was some ridiculously huge percentage of 'Claws picking that vs. anything else.) 

5. Telling Flitwick when he asks if you know is Ravenclaw (there's that whole spiel about getting your House points back and your classmate deserving it.) If you opted to tell Flitwick before the exam, that's Hufflepuff - and you'd be the first person to answer that option, so please let me know if you did! 

6. Heads is Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw. 

7. Depends on what you put. Again, let me know. 

Basically, don't feel too bad: you're showing strong Ravenclaw tendencies, and swapping the broom to everything would probably have put you in Ravenclaw. On another Sorting quiz, with a different array of questions, you'd have a very good chance of being a 'Claw.