I'm not sure how many people will remember these guys but there is a country music band called "The Confederate Railroad" who were about the biggest thing around, back in the late 80's and early 90's. They had songs like "Trashy Women", "Jesus and Momma", "Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind", "Queen of Memphis", and many more. They sold about 6 million records. However, once things started getting "politically correct" many of the DJ's stopped playing "Confederate Railroad" records, even though there is not a racist bone in any of these guys bodies. The Confederate Railroad was actually, originally one of the organizations who helped slaves get out of the south before and during the Civil War and these guys named their band after it.

    Anyhow, this was the third time we went on a cruise with them. Here is a picture from one of the shows that they played on the ship. We got almost front row seats.

   The lead singer (Danny Shirley) is always very gracious and he stops and chats with us when he sees us up on the deck or anywhere on the ship. We have enjoyed their music for 20 years, and I have performed many of their songs on stage myself, so it is a special treat to be able to sit at down with each of them and listen to stories about their music and travels.

  More about that later. We enjoyed eating breakfast at this spot on the back of the ship.

Here is the view out the window.

After breakfast, a dip in the jacuzzi was nice.

On the way back from breakfast that morning, we snapped this picture of a guy and his ice sculpture. Unfortunately, it was already partially melted.

Each night, the people who turned down the bed, while we were gone to dinner, would make a "towel animal". Here is the one on Tuesday night. I think it's a rabbit.

We spent all day Tuesday, on the boat, sailing from the Bahamas, around Cuba, and on to the island of Grand Cayman. More pictures at www.countrydrive.com Tomorrow, swimming with stingrays.