Explore Ireland You lucky few found a pot of gold $3500 worth! Time to go to Ireland!
So here are the Rules of the trip Pay close attention or your luck will run out!
The Rules Congratulations! All of your rainbow hunting has really paid off! You finally found the end of the rainbow, and there really was a pot of gold! In your pot of gold you found $3,500! But there is a catch you can only use your $3,500 on a trip to you guessed it Ireland!
The Rules Continued You must make at least three pre-trip purchases. You MUST buy an airline ticket. You must buy a passport. Each day, you must eat at least two meals. Each day, you must have lodging (if you re a group of two, it is still only the expense of one). Each day, you must go to at least one activity. You must have transportation to and from your activity. You arrive on Monday and leave Saturday morning. You won t need an itinerary for Saturday.
But be careful! You must use as much as you can anything left over will automatically go back into the pot of gold. If you spend too much, you ll spend time in dublin jail and will owe me chores!
Now Let s meet our lucky travelers!
The Teenage Brother and Sisters You are teenage brother and two sisters whose parents are from Ireland. Now, you are going on a trip to Ireland to learn more about your Irish heritage. You are from Texas and cannot wait to escape the dry, dusty earth for the lush green landscape of Ireland. Most of the places you want to visit are nature-focused. Have a great time!
The Elderly Couple You are an elderly couple who have always wanted to go to Ireland as this is a trip of a lifetime! You are very costconscious, but want to make sure to see as much as you can, for as good of a price as you are able. You also have an interest in the shopping districts because you want to bring back souvenirs for all of your 12 grandchildren. Good luck grandma and grandpa!
The Best Friends You are best friends taking your first out-of-the-country trip! You re both in your twenties and this is a graduation present to yourselves. Because you re just out of college, you don t have tons of money, but you want to see EVERYTHING! Of course, you re most interested in the night life in concerts and festivals and dances. You cannot wait to take Ireland by storm! Go get your Irish dance on!
The Explorers You are two explorers on an epic adventure to uncover all of the mysteries of Ireland. You work for the BBC network and are doing a journalism piece trying to tie the cultural beliefs of Ireland to the unexplainable sightings of things like fairies, leprechauns, and elementals. Though serious businessmen, you both have had strong connections to fantasy and are thrilled to be living your childhood dream of chasing mysterious beasts. Good luck discovering what is real.
The Engaged Couple You are an engaged couple who met in America, but the guy s parents are from Ireland. He came to America to work as a novelist, and met his future wife, who is an artist. Before you get married, you want to introduce your future wife to your parents and family relatives. She has never been to Ireland before, so you want to be sure to show her some of the most amazing sights Ireland has to offer. It is going to be an amazing trip neither of you will ever forget!
The businessman You are a thirty-something man who has always been so absorbed with work that you ve never done anything really brave or adventurous. Kind of shy, you decide to go for an adventure. It s been a life goal of yours to, Kiss the Blarney Stone which is supposed to give you the magical gift of gab. You says that if you kiss the stone, you ll be an even better business man because you won t ever be afraid to talk to anyone! You want to see a lot of hiking sites. It ll be the best trip you ever take.
The Married Couple You are a married couple in your forties and are both professional musicians. You re really successful and have decided to buy a home in Ireland as a vacation space for you and your two kids. You have ten-yearold twins and they are really pumped for you to pick the perfect home, but you told them that just the two of you needed to go first to pick it out. As a concert violinist and a famous jazz piano player, you guys are really into the music scene. You plan on checking out towns that have a cultural flare for traditional Irish folk music. Carry on!
You are a widow in her sixties who recently lost her husband due to an accident hiking Mount Everest. He was an adventurer and you want to live by his example of fearlessness and living life to the fullest. Your husband, Colin, was Irish by heritage and you d love to go to the green isle to retrace some of his roots and feel closer to him again. You plan to go on grand adventures while you are there and take photos of every brave thing you ve done to show your children when you return. The Widow
You are twins who are professional builders. You work for HGTV and were just asked to begin hosting your own show about building houses in diverse places across the planet. The first place you were asked to scope out to build a house was Ireland. You and your brother are on a reconnaissance mission to find the best wild landscapes to build on, while still taking time to enjoy the local people, food, and culture. The Twins
You ll be graded on your math Be sure to be accurate
Presenting your trip You will be presenting your Ireland Trip in the form of a digital scrapbook. You need to include your itinerary for each day along with fun discussion of what you saw and where you went. Include pictures, video clips, real images of the places be creative! When you present, you should be in character.