On Friday night, Lan Anh (in photo on left) invited us to her sister's house in Haiphong for Vietnam's Independence Day. On our way to the bus station, we stopped to get icecream- this is a typical "convenient-type" store. Her daughter, Lan Thao, stands beside her. The 3 hour bus trip to Haiphong was packed and stopped often to pick up more passengers along the way. When the seats filled (shortly after leaving the station), they added small plastic stools down the bus aisle.