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So I think you pretty much figured out from the title of this post that we did not succeed in the Guinness World Record attempt. We were trying to form the largest human pink ribbon and we needed over 4,000 people to beat the record Saudi Arabia set last October. We only had around 2,700. Not. even. close.

The event was held at 5 PM on Sunday. Everyone who was willing to participate was able to buy $19 tickets to Kings Island (a steal), spend the day riding rides and meet up at 4:30 to gather to go out to the parking lot. Here was the first mistake. In my humble opinion, the event should have been held in the morning for two big reasons: 1. People wouldn’t get distracted or lose track of time while in the park and 2. IT WAS FREAKING HOT!

If I wasn’t so gung-ho to participate in this, I would have gone home much much earlier. It was so unbelievably hot that I think a lot of people instantly put this on their f*ck it list and went home.

The picture above was our meeting spot. They did a pretty good job entertaining us. There was a band and they were selling pink pom poms and getting us riled up. The next mistake I thought was to hold us in this open air arena. There is another stage just as big and it is outside but completely covered. The whole thing is bathed in shade. And MOST IMPORTANTLY, it is smack in the middle of the park. This amphitheater was tucked away in a back corner that is not visible if you don’t know where to look. They chose this location because it was close to the parking lot where we were going to be forming our ribbon, but if we had done it at the other place, I feel like we would have gotten more people to instantly join.

Once we finally moved to the parking lot, they put us into formation. They had white dots that formed the outline of the ribbon that we had to stand inside of. Can you see the bottom of the ribbon forming?

There was a helicopter above taking pictures, which they were selling for $12. Uh, no thank you. I already had a pretty cool souvenir – we each got this free t-shirt to commemorate the experience.

Luckily, we didn’t have to wait around too long before they broke the bad news to us. The second they told us, even while they were telling us, people scattered to the comfort of their air-conditioned cars.

This is me before the bad news, still hopeful.

Little did I know that the company that owns Kings Island is hosting these events at their parks all summer long. That same day, people at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH beat two World Records. The records are: “Greatest number of people applying sunscreen simultaneously at a single venue” and “Greatest number of people keeping beach balls in the air simultaneously at a single venue.” LAME. The one saving grace of this event was that we ended up raising $10,000 for Susan G. Komen. Take that and suck it, Cedar Point. No, I’m not bitter…

Because of this event, it is now OFFICIALLY on my list to be involved in a Guinness World Record. So if you know of any coming up (that are indoors, preferably), let me know!