Pickup game of hockey

The other night I passed by Polaris Park, the neighborhood park here on North Hill in Minot. As you can see, local kids are playing a game of hockey. Life in North Dakota in the winter. The sound of skates slicing the ice and of a hockey puck banging against the boards in the cold night air.

This is how life here in North Dakota differs from Montana as none of the Montana schools in the Flathead Valley have hockey programs or teams. Mountains equal downhill skiing. North Dakota flatlands equal hockey.