For years, the City of San Antonio has lifted overnight camping restrictions at some parks in the city on Easter weekend.
The Valdez family sits at their Brackenridge Park campsite Friday. Camping at the park on Easter weekend has been a Valdez family tradition for five generations.The Perez family marked their Easter camping territory at Brackenridge Park a week before the city lifted the overnight camping curfew. Since Sunday night, the family guarded the area from 7:30 a.m. until the park closed.
“It gets tiring. There’s times when I’m just like, I want to throw in the towel and go to sleep, because we’re running on three to four hours of sleep each day,” said Celia Perez. “On Easter Sunday, it’s seeing everybody happy, the kids excited,” she said, adding that her kids ask her and her wife about the upcoming celebration all year long.
The Perez family started their Easter camping tradition just last year. They chose Brackenridge Park for the ambiance, Perez said: Car clubs, bikers, people riding bicycles, children playing. You’ll smell the fire pits going and hear music playing all weekend long. they make, ready to crack during the weekend.
He grew up going to Easter camping celebrations with his grandparents and parents, and he did the same with his family — and now his grandchildren are also joining in. Valdez’s grandson, 7-year-old Josiha Gonzalez, said Easter is his second-favorite holiday after Christmas. Last year, he got a new baseball glove in his Easter basket.
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