A small picnic in Kissimmee
After our exhilarating airboat and swamp buggy tour at Boggy Creek Road, we have Serpent Road north of Orlando, and decided to have a picnic on the outskirts of Orlando, Kissimmee’ This city is at the gates of Walt Disney World complex and offers a wide variety of tourist accommodations in the historic city center, near Kissimmee’ The historic district tours, antique shops, boutiques, restaurants, or visits’
According to the City of Kissimmee Web site “local historians have offered many variations of the name of the city’ Most agree that Kissimmee is a modern spelling of a tribal word’ The book of Indians of Florida and the invasion of Europe by Jerald T’ Milanich, links “Kissimmee” to a village in the Jororo, Florida, one of the lesser-known tribes’ Historian John Hann Spanish missions in research estabilshed Jororo to convert to Christianity and other groups at the end year 1600′ suggest that the Spanish mission was built near the tribe’s main village, also called Jororo’ Another mission was Atissimi’ Milanich writes, “Hann suggests that the name Atissimi, sometimes as Jizimi and Tisimi, May be the source of the modern name Kissimmee’ A 1752 Spanish map used the name “Cacem” which ran in today’s spelling, Kissimmee’
Kissimmee main strip offers a variety of local merchants and restaurants’ The city was decorated hand, or even the police were at a party before Christmas:
Kissimmee is located at the north end of Lake Tohopekaliga and one of its places are called “Toho Square”:
We noticed several murals throughout the city, illustrating the history of the city’ My husband tried to see if you can mix in the wall without being noticed, I am not so sure it actually worked:
We decided to have a nice little picnic lunch and settled on a bench in front of the “Big Toho Pier:
Here is another view of Big Toho Pier, a quiet place where we enjoy a warm Sunday in December:
A horde of seabirds has been right next to the other side of the pier:
A short stroll along Lakeshore Boulevard, we have a war to commemorate the memory of the Second World War: