With your host children

The WhatsApp group is the best way to stay up to date with playdates and activities that other au pairs are doing.

Ideas you can talk about with your host familiy:

The WoW museum (ages 1-6)

Rec centers (all ages)

Library story time (ages 1-6)

Great Outdoors waterpark (2-12)

Water World (2- adult, kids under 40 inches tall free)

Eliches Amusement Park ( all ages, kids 2 and under free, register for a free preschool pass for kids 3-5)

Butterfly Pavilion (all ages)

Denver Children’s Museum (all ages)

The Denver Zoo (all ages)

Denver Museum of Nature and Science (ages 3-adult)

Gymnastics Open Gym (X-treme gymnastics, Airborne, The Little Gym) (ages 1-6 usually)

Skate parks

Best Coffee & Bakeries

Moxie Bread Co.

Jeannot’s Patisserie

Button Rock Bakery// Otis Coffee

BREW Tea & Coffee

Lucca Coffee & Eatery

Bittersweet Cafe

East Simpson Coffee

In your free time-

Ice Cream/ Dessert

Sweet Cow- Louisville

Eats n Sweets- Lafayette

The Melting Pot- Louisville (very expensive, but good for a celebration dessert!)

Dairy Queen

Cow-A-Bunga

Menchies

Good times Custard

Ideas for Activities

Take a hike, many people use an app called AllTrails to find good hiking spots!

Go bowling

Go iceskating

See a movie

Baseball games form March to October (the Colorado Rockies)

Basketball games from October to April (the Denver Nuggets)

Hockey Games from October to April (the Colorado Avalanche)

Football games from September to February (the Denver Broncos)

CU Boulder college sports

DU college sports

Downtown Denver or Boulder (there are many 18+ options!)

Estes Park (parts of the park close for the winter)

Visit the library to help with their community puzzles

Local Stores

Grocery stores

King Soopers

Safeway

Sprouts

Whole Foods

Target (most of the time)

Costco (you must have a membership, it’s for bulk food items)

Sam’s Club (you must have a membership, it’s for bulk food items)

Walmart

Pharmacies

Walgreens

Target (usually has a pharmacy)

King Soopers (usually has a pharmacy)

Walmart (usually has a pharmacy)

Stores with clothes and other random items

Target

Walmart

Jax

ARC (resale store for used clothing)

Goodwill (used clothing)

Where to Shop

Old Town Louisville

Old Town Lafayette

Flatirons Crossing Mall- Superior

The Orchard- Westminster

Denver Premium Outlets- Thornton

29th Street Mall- Boulder

Pearl Street Mall- Boulder