Ever want to have an ice rink in your backyard?  Then don't watch this video, it will crush your dreams.

It took Matt Vriesemsa five days of work to make his Chicago rink a reality, and Vriesemsa charted his progress with 28,000 photos to make this time-lapse video:

This is an absolutely beautiful hockey rink, but man does it look like a lot of work.  Don't worry though; if you really want to build a rink, there are much, much easier ways to do it.

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