"Live the Cover!" Contest: Maldives

Great Travel Moment

I watched and photographed this girl and her brother playing for about 20 minutes. They both played with a wheelbarrow, wheeling it back and forth on a small patch of sandy street. Sometimes, she pulled a broom out of the wheelbarrow (it's sole content) and would play by making different motions with the handle. Then, the broom went back in the wheelbarrow, and around in circles and other delightful patterns they wheeled. When I asked to take their pictures, she posed with the broom. In each of her pictures, she grinned as much as she could without breaking the seal between her lips. I found it comical on that day. Now, I find it sad, worrying that it foreshadowed a later modesty.Her brother was a hoot. He ran straight up to my camera and stood underneath it, laughing and enjoying every minute.