Hello all. Welcome to our Goeres family travel blog. We leave Seattle on Dec. 26 so check here a couple of days after that and hopefully we'll have some pictures and some adventures to tell you about. We are traveling with and meeting up with a group of people from all over the world who have adopted children from the Ashraya orphanage in Bangalore, India. The orphanage is having its 25th anniversary. Emily lived there until she was 1 1/2 and we have met a few of the women who work or volunteer there when they have traveled to the U.S. After we've been in Bangalore for a week we'll take a train to Chennai (formerly Madras) along with Amy's social worker from 20 years ago to reconnect with Amy's birth mother, grandma and sister and
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