As the weather gets warmer, it's important that we re-learn how to interact with one another as a society... outside, sans screens.
A great way to do that is with picnics. Super-massive picnics.
Giant picnics are more common than you might think, and a preferred symbol of slightly annoying optimists everywhere. There are even multiple verified world records for different kinds of large picnics.
Here are 20 photos inside some of those world's biggest picnics. Hopefully you stumble upon one someday.
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Le Diner En Blanc
New York’s “Largest popup picnic” in 2015.
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Le Diner En Blanc Continued
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Le Diner En Blanc Continued
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A “Super Picnic” in Houston
Designed to give young people the chance to mingle.
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Durham Festival
Setting a new Guinness World Record for the Longest Picnic Table in 2015.
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Bignik
A Swedish art installation by Frank and Patrik Riklin, hosting a 160,000 square foot picnic.
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The World’s Largest Picnic Basket
Originally built to house the basket-making Longaberger Company, it now sits unoccupied in Newark, Ohio.
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The World’s Largest Picnic Basket Continued
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Massive Quad Picnic
Organized by Marygrove College students in 2014.
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Kitchener, Canada
World’s longest picnic record attempt. 5,000 people in 2013.
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8,000 Pounds of Pine
A 320-foot long record picnic table in 2013, seating 450 people, built for the Hellman's Mayonnaise centennial.
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The Big Picnic
Held in Vancouver to celebrate its Cherry Blossom Festival.
