Why didn't they have snow tubing back when I was a kid?

That is the question.

So much easier, cheaper, and less effort/pain than skiing or snowboarding. Kids as little as Eden can do it and enjoy it (the look on her face each time she went down was priceless). The adults loved it, too (though, I apparently did get an upper body workout, as my aching shoulders proved this morning). So much fun, I can't wait to do it again.

The whole weekend was great. Tubing was a blast, the kids loved the hotel pool and just being together with MaryBeth and family, and I couldn't have asked for a thing to be different.

We're definitely going to make this an annual trip.