The Guthega plan was a Hogg Family escape, designed by super-planner Cathy to avoid the drudgery and boredom of a Canberra Christmas. We had the famous Doorack lodge to ourselves for much of the time, and the entire family was coerced into cooking Xmas dinner, giving Mum a rest for the first time in decades.Christmas morning itself - replete with glorious mountain sunshine - dawned to the tune of screaming children as they discovered just how good Santa had considered them to be over the last year. (Personally, I think Santa's judgement is questionable.) Most of us escaped in stages to get some exercise in anticipation of Christmas dinner - Nat around the resort by herself; Susie and Cathy dragged Dad down the aquaduct, while Patrick & I popped up Guthega Trig - one of the best Xmas day runs that I've done, as evidenced by the 270 degree panorama shown below (you can even pick out Mt Kosciuszko if you know where to look).
Once we'd all recovered it was present time.
And presents there were. Ella didn't really have the concentration span to fully realise just how much loot she scored - and was more interested in the bubble wrap from her first present than any of the subsequent packages.Christmas lunch was chaotic and bountiful. The challenge was to make sure you ate enough to avoid needing dinner. Then all the kids took their new bikes/
scooters/wheelbarrows down to the concrete turning circle to test them out (with several spectuacular failures). Probably the biggest failure of the day was Cathy's Santa dress (see photo) which attracted several comments from passers by and was the talk of Guthega village.Of course, there is more to tell from subsequent days in Guthega, but I'll stage these out over the next few days.
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