Free time

Activities for Kids
- Subscribe to Macaroni Kid newsletter - email full of tips what to do and visit on the upcoming weekend. https://national.macaronikid.com/

- Become member of local library. Libraries in the USA are excellent. Local library is great place to visit (usually they have some area where kids can play), borrow books, e-books, movies, mp3s, etc. They also may organize some events for kids.

- Before you leave to the USA, let your kids watch US shows appropriate for their age. It will introduce them to US reality. The Simpsons worked great for our pre-school to 4th grade kids. Surprisingly they got a lot of informations about US culture from it (i.e. universities have high tuitions etc. )

- Consider subscribing to some streaming service like Netflix or Hulu. Watching shows (optionally with English subtitles on) helps improving language skills.

Commuting
- Biking - all campuses promote biking and have bikes racks everywhere. Used bikes are cheap (Market place on Facebook, Craigslist,....etc.)

- Bus - often in university district there are special bus lines, also regular public transport operate there more likely that in other parts of the cities. Good prize for commuting. Usually parking in campus is really expensive.