Day 2 - Houston to Auburn

9:30 AM - We have departed from Houston after plenty of last minute packing. We're a little cramped in the back seat, mainly due to the large volume of food that our parents sent with us. No complaints there though, and I'm sure it'll all be gone in the span of a couple of days. We've got our 4 suitcases in the back of the van, the TV in the middle and all sorts of random stuff strewn about the cabin. It's gonna be interesting, that's for sure.

10:30 AM - Well, crap. My AC/DC power converter doesn't have enough power to run either the PS3 or the TV. Frustrado. We're stopping at Best Buy in Beaumont to pick up hopefully a 200 Watt converter. Then I'm gonna lose to Gray at NCAA Football 09 as the Fighting Texas Aggies! Ok we're at Best Buy, so we're gonna make a mad dash for the converter now. Oh, and we're all getting really annoyed with the radar detector because it's detecting all of the X-Band radars from stores like Target and Wal-Mart. The beeping has to stop.

11:30 AM - Well, this is becoming very interesting. Stopped at Best Buy to buy a power converter. We bought a 200 Watt, 115 volt converter and brought it back to the car and tested it out. No dice. After a more thorough investigation of the PS3, we found that it uses 120 volts. So we went back into Best Buy and returned the converter, getting some weird looks from the people who had just had us in the check out line a few minutes ago. After returning it, we took a closer look at power converters and found one that was advertised as providing 120 volts. After taking it out to the car to check it, we found that it too was insufficient. Muy frustrado. We then read the box and saw that it said 115 volts, but the manual said that it was 115 volts so that it could run with 110 volt and 120 volt appliances. Except PS3s I guess. Anger.

12:00 PM - Unhappiness with the video gaming system is setting in. After a call to the Sony Playstation 3 helpline, they told us what we already knew, which was that the Playstation isn't getting enough power. Unfortunately, they couldn't tell me anything else, even though I'd sat on hold for 25 minutes. Super gay. Oh well, Kyle and Jason are entertained in the front, Gray is playing Game Boy, and I'm about to bust out my computer's Monopoly, so it's all good.

12:53 PM - Jason - "Give me some Cajun jokes."
Josh - "Shane Heumann"
Entire Car - "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" (very loud, hilarious laughter)

2:30 PM - We just got gas at a station that featured a live tiger out in a cage at the stadium. Pretty cool, except it was being a lazy cat and sleeping in its little box thing. Oh well.

4:00 PM - Thank God. We are out of the god-forsaken state of Louisiana.

10:52 PM - Auburn, AL - We just got back from a mini-tour of the Auburn campus with Kyle's friend Joey, who we're staying with. It's a pretty nice campus, really cool looking football stadium. It's been a long day in the car, things are slightly less organized than they were when we left this morrning. We rolled into Auburn around 8:30 or so, grabbed some pizza, and then went with Joey to a place called Snow Biz, some really awesome snowcones. From there, we headed over to the Auburn campus and walked around inside the basketball arena for a while and looked at a few other places too. Now we're trying to find out where on earth we're going to sleep tomorrow night. Ought to be fun. Oh, well Baseball Tonight is on, so I'm gone. Nationals - Braves at Turner Field tomorrow!!!