My sister is going to our uncle's funeral. It's a long train journey away so she's seeing it as a holiday, going for 2 nights, to a "lovely air bnb with a hot tub. Might as well have 2 nights as it's so cheap this time of year!"
Where it gets weirder, we really didn't know the uncle at all. Met him maybe twice, briefly, in our lives as children. She's taking her daughter, who never met the man, out of school for that time along with her DH who will take time off work, who also never met our uncle. She's said the absence has been authorised by the school, but I can't imagine how. Her daughter is the sort of child who can't hold her own water, so any fibs would just not hold.
They're not terribly well off, so missing work, potential fines for absence seem really daft to me. None of my business of course, but it just seems insane. Why not just have a weekend away if you really want one?
She tried to do the same for another uncle's funeral a few weeks ago. We were much closer to him so I offered to drive (she had an injury that meant she couldnt drive at that time) so her DH didn't need to drive and could look after their daughter so she wouldn't miss school. She accepted, only to turn me down the next day as she 'remembered' she had a work thing she couldn't miss on the afternoon we'd travel (I was taking our elderly parents the evening before as funeral was first thing in the morning, a couple of hundred miles away) So she came, alone, on the train in the morning instead.
But now she's finally getting her family fun funeral jolly. Whatever floats your morbid holiday boat, I guess. Just had to share the weirdness of it all.