“You look at the kites and you can’t help but smile,” noted Lisa Willoughby, who organizes Long Beach Island’s kite festival alongside the LBI Chamber of Commerce. And over the weekend, for the seventh annual event, smiles were in abundance.

“Despite the weather on Sunday, our seventh annual LBI FLY Kite Festival had a great turnout,” said Calla Aniski Boyd, event co-organizer.