She's hooked!  I knew it would happen.

Aerelle received a cycling computer for Christmas thanks to family who chipped in.  We wired it up to her wheelchair and got her going with it.  The computer tells her, among other things, her SPEED.  More importantly it stores your maximum speed.  She started pushing really hard in a parking lot and got it up to a pretty good clip.  What do you suppose was next?  . . . the Hill.

Let's just say that the hill in front of her grandparent's house is steep and a decent enough distance to get that little orange flag "flapping in the breeze."  I blocked traffic and let her take off down hill . . . this time without using her brake.  (I have been waiting for Aerelle to lose some of her inhibitions about speed in that chair.)  I could see her from the back when she came to a stop at the bottom of the hill.  Both hands went up as she shouted "Woohoo!" at the top of her lungs.  By the end of the day Aerelle had pushed her max speed to over 22.4 miles per hour.