Sean... Are you going to get a booth or just roam? And don't come early unless you want to play golf hahha. I know from our experience we usually have meetings set up through out the 2 to 3 days we are there. Most of our meetings are with our ISO's that we usually do not get to have a face to face interaction with and discuss the pro's and con's of working with MCG and address any changes we have made. I will say that i have been to ETA at Vegas and ETA venue outside of Vegas. I find that when outside of Vegas you do get people who are there to attend to more business than pleasure... but this is New Orlenas and not San Diego so that may provide the same atmosphere as Vegas. Oh and if your wife comes... as long as she is okay doing adventures on her own during the day she should enjoy as i don't think she would want to spend the full two days on the expo floor.