swim or fly

Today is World UFO Day and also 'swim a lap' day.  Your odds of seeing a UFO are slighty better that the chance of seeing me swim these days.  I can swim, sort of.  One of the reasons I like river cruises more than ocean cruises is because I can usually see the river banks and feel pretty sure that I could swim to shore in an emergency, especially wearing a life jacket.  Also there are no sharks in rivers. Piranhas maybe but I'm not planning to cruise on any South American rivers.  I actually passed my college PE swimming class.  We had to swim the length of the pool six times - back and forth swimming the back stroke (always my favorite because I can breathe) the side stroke and the front stroke.  We also had to dive in off the low board.  I did the dive and I remember it being rather pleasant but I have never been able to make myself do it again.  Pretty sure I could make myself jump in the river if the boat was sinking.  I managed all the laps but that was it.  I understand that our pool here at the apartments is open, with several restrictions, but honestly, given a choice, and I do have a choice, I would rather sit in the shade on my balcony and read a good book.  A real blessing about taking that swimming class way back in 1964 is that there were no cell phones so there is no record of my swimming test.  I'm sure it wasn't a pretty picture.