The storm's getting worse, and we have no idea if there's a flash flood warning, so we decide to call it an evening, and head back to the Tropicana. For about an hour, we listen to a wonderful radio program about Dean Martin on KJUL, and watch the lightning from our room. Then we decide we should probably gamble at least a little at the Trop, and head downstairs for a couple of hours - get slot cards, and play a long time at piggy banking. So we decide just to play some nickel slots and see if we can't win a progressive. Nope, no luck there either.
Service is pretty regular however, even in the nickel slot area.
By the time we get back to the room, my daughter's totally sacked out, and we go to bed early. Wake up early, and get mostly done packing. We take stock of what we did, and what we didn't get to do - there never seems to be enough time. We decide to do Excalibur, rather than the MGM grand theme park for reasons I can't remember. So off to Excalibur we go, we intend to go on the motion rides first, and then eat, but the motion rides don't open until later, so we decide to brave the Excalibur buffet.