Before I read any of the text I just focused on the people and with peripherial vision put together that they were on a bus. The reaction of the mother looked celebratory, like she was embracing a new journey. The individual mind certainly likes to put its own spin on things.
You certainly have a storytelling mind also and it’s funny how your mind imagineded a bus at first. I would be conserned if you weren’t consentrating on the mother and daugher as they are the subject.