Update: 05.08

Today we traveled to Novorossiysk (Nav-ra-seesk) to visit the town where Sasha was born. Our desire is that by having some pictures of her birth town she will be able to fill in some gaps and know her complete life story. Hopefully the pictures and just knowing we actually walked the streets of the place where her life began will provide Sasha with some closure and an understanding of what her first two years of life were like.

The town is a port town on the Black Sea and is more industrial than other port cities. People tend to visit the other cities for vacations but people visit Novorossiysk because of work. The city is the number one exporter of grain in the Krasnodar region. I’ve included a link to a website that has more information and history on this beautiful city. The area is surrounded by mountains and the sea and just outside of town are vineyards. It actually reminds me of the northern California coast area that we visit often. I look forward to being there with Sasha in summers to come and telling her that this is what the town she was born in kind of looked like.

The city has a really nice pier and boardwalk area where we spent most of our time. There’s also a neat amusement park a short ways from this area and to our surprise it was free to get in. Walking around the park I wondered what Sasha would think of such a place. It’s kind of surreal walking around where she was born and watching and wondering about the other people. Are any of these people a relative to her? Did her birth mom bring her to any of these places when she was only a couple months old? Lots of questions that have no answers. I wonder if God allowed this opportunity so we can better understand what Sasha will be thinking and wondering about when she reflects on the early months of her life.

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