The main floor has thousands of slot machines (mainly video), gaming tables, restaurants and small bars. The Tropicana is part Las Vegas, part Mall of America. We may have slept at the Chelsea, but we lived at the Tropicana. By 1PM, we were in Atlantic City, and by 1:30 we were in our room on the 16th floor of the Chelsea Hotel, which was conveniently located next door to the Tropicana. Luckily, the storm underperformed and the drive was uneventful. My hope was to skirt the heavier snowfall by staying south of Philadelphia. Instead, basing my decisions on forecast maps, I decided to stay with our Nissan Rogue, but to leave 95N just after Wilmington, taking 40E across southern New Jersey. All week we had heard that we would likely be driving straight into a massive blizzard we had even considered renting an SUV to make the trip. The first part of the adventure was the drive up on Friday morning. (Bear in mind that my birthday trips take us to battlefields and historic sites, so I guess it all evens out in the end.) I’m not much of a gambler, mainly because my competitive nature makes repeated losing difficult to endure, but Laurie enjoys it (the games, not losing), and since it was her birthday, off we went. This past weekend, as a birthday present for my wife Laurie, we spent the weekend in Atlantic City.
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