We built rinks in our back yard every year. My brother and I were big into hockey. Being from Michigan we learned to skate when we were three. The rink was big enough that the neighborhood kids would come over after school and we would play until our parents would call us in at night. A lot of "Stanley Cups" won on that rink! Everyone wanted to be Marcel Deon (played for the Redwings for a while and probably the greatest player nobody has ever heard of). Now I live on a lake and my kids have the neighbors over for games.