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Hawaiians try to set Guinness record

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• May 1: Volunteers wind around Kapiolani Park holding a long cord of plumeria, orchids and other fresh tropical flowers near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. The lei was officially recorded at 5336 feet, well over one mile of hand-picked exotic flowers. All documentation of the event will be sent to Guinness Book of Records.
• May 1: Volunteers hold up a section of what could be the world's longest lei, made of fresh tropical flowers, in Kapiolani Park in front of Diamond Head mountain near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
• May 1: Volunteers, holding what they hope is the world's longest lei, wind around the edge of Kapiolani Park near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.
• May 1: Volunteers attach plumeria, orchids and other fresh tropical flowers on a section of what may be the world's longest lei in Kapiolani Park in front of Diamond Head mountain near Waikiki Beach in Honolulu.