American Pie.

The Great American Pie Festival is being held at Celebration on Saturday April 24^th to Sunday April 25^th 2010.

An award ceremony will take place for the ‘National Pie Championship 2010’ and the award-winning pies will be showcased in Celebration at the event.

For more information:- www.piecouncil.org.

Kissimmee Trying New Eco-friendly Pavement.

Kissimmee are trying out a new eco-friendly ‘permeable paving’ mixture at the exit driveway behind the Kissimmee civic centre. It is the first city in Central Florida to use this method.

For more info. Go to http://www.kissimmee.org/

A New Year message

Happy New Year to all in Orlando and all our readers everywhere, wishing you a happy and prosperous year ahead.

‘Thanksgiving Day’ November 26th 2009

 

To all our readers,

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

Veterans Day

Today is Veterans Day in the USA.

On Saturday November 14^th 10am-12pm there will be a Parade in Downtown Orlando to commemorate this day. The parade and Gasparilla floats will feature members of active military and will start from Orange Ave. and Livingston Street. It is hosted by Mayor Buddy Dyer and the Mayors Veterans advisory council.

Festival of Trees

The Orlando Museum of Art will be holding its annual ‘Festival of Trees’.

From November 14^th 2009-November 22^nd 2009.

Sponsored by PNC Bank.

Why not get the feel for Christmas? Here you will find an amazing display of decorated trees, maybe even buy one and take it home! There will be shopping, choral singing, orchestras, dancing, ballet performances, luscious food, and refreshments.

General admission
$10 Adult
$6 Child

Halloween Celebrations in Orlando

Here are a few events happening in Orlando for Halloween.

Starting with scary fun and frolics for older children and grown ups. Universal is holding it’s ‘Halloween Horror' nights for excitement, shock and horror. http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/orlando/eventinfo.html 

Or for a milder scare the Disney way, check out http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdwi/en_GB/parks/specialEvents?id=MickeysNotSoScaryHalloweenPartySpecialEventPage  for spooky costumes, trick or treat, Mickey Mouse fun and fireworks.

SeaWorld also has seasonal events for all the family.  http://www.seaworldspooktacular.com/swfspook.html

Green Meadows petting farm in Kissimmee has a special ‘fall’ theme, where children can pick their own pumpkin. http://www.greenmeadowsfarm.com/