If I am counting it right, this is our 6th year of rocking the multi-family ski vacay. No easy feat to get 4 families with insanely busy schedules to carve out a weekend together.
The first year we started this tradition was 2019. The kids were so little and couldn't ski very well yet.
This was 2019...
It has been so amazing seeing the kids grow up and progress not just in their skiing abilities but from chubby-faced kids to teenagers. Look at these guys now all grown up. (Also amazing that we got a bunch of preteens and teenagers to still listen to us and cooperatively recreate a nostalgic picture from 2019!) 
We upgraded to two premium cabins this year and it was perfect for two families to share a cabin. We took turns having one cabin cook dinner one night and the other cabin cook the other night. The kids all ate in one cabin and we enjoyed lovely adult conversation in the other cabin.
Manning is small enough of a mountain that the kids can ski on their own with their friends. What a difference it is now compared to when we first started coming to Manning when the kids couldn't get on and off the chairlift without tumbling down and pulling us down with us! It was a win-win for everyone to do laps on the chairlift with friends.
Our ski vacay also wouldn't be complete without our other traditions like the ladies only hike, the Menno-men bake-off and good ol' Candian hockey.
Feeling grateful for these lasting friendships. Being busy working parents with kids that play multiple sports, we don't get to connect as much as we'd like but it's a mutual understanding that it's just a season that we're in and once a year, we carve out this weekend and make some more memories together. And yes, we've already booked side-by-side cabins again for next year!
