Sounds like a plan to me!...And frankly you don’t owe anybody , including the family friends, any reason for your change of plans.....just leave and tell them something’s come up you “want” to take care of.....and leave it at that.
If push comes to shove...it’s frankly none of their business....and you might have to tell them so.
One thing I had to learn in life...you do not have to account to anybody you don’t want to...and how to stop thinking I have to give people reasons for what I chose to do or not.
I’m spending Christmas alone because that is what I want to do...I had several invites when they learned my family would be across country. I still chose to be alone...and am doing what I want tonight and tomorrow.
There’s is something quite special about being solo Christmas......and sensing the Lords intended it that way.
I’ll come up with some creative thing like there was a break in or something and I’m the only one in town with keys.
Which is true.
Everyone else left.
Eggs, bacon and hashbrowns sound good to me.