Maria DiCicco

3 weeks ago | orlando-parenting.com | Maria DiCicco

Did you know you can book a meeting room at any of the Orange County, Seminole County and Osceola County libraries? At your local branch you can not only reserve rooms for the occasional book club, Mom day or Girl Scout meeting, but you can also host birthday parties and other small gatherings! I confirmed this by phone today, and can’t wait to host my next event at my local branch.

1 month ago | tampabaydatenightguide.com | Maria DiCicco

<div id="c3be0912bb716eee4ca644c1dfc4ecde4"></div>Enough with the ho-hum and the three hour traffic getting to Orlando. Enough with the white-knuckle driving and awful drivers. Take the train!Amtrak has been running routes between Orlando and Tampa for decades, and no one really takes advantage of it enough, in my opinion. It’s not as glamorous as European train travel, but it’s got an air of nostalgia and can be a really unique way to take an overnighter from Tampa with a date.

1 month ago | orlando-parenting.com | Maria DiCicco

Kids love a good pirate story, or anything that ends in glittering gold, so naturally up and down Florida’s treasure coast there are numerous museums like in St. Augustine, Key West and at the museum of the infamous treasure hunter, Mel Fisher, in the Melbourne area. Pirates may have been good at stealing treasure, but we don’t often stop and think about – where did the treasure come from? How did it get to Florida? Are the stories even real?