Dan,

I would suggest(if you can go for just 1 day) that you go to the convention on thursday--August 9th. Which is the first full day that the convention floor is open. Be there a little before the show opens--at 10:00 AM. That is when you can see what all that the clubs and dealers have. Before it is gone over by everybody else. And a lot of the collectors are around to meet and visit with. Before they head out or back to the strike machines. Or where ever the need or want to go.

If you can not make the 9th then try for the friday the 10th. Then the last full day saturday the 11th.
I sure hope you can make it, even for 1 day. I do not believe you will regret going. I NEVER have regreted it.
Gator Dan