When the day had already began to turn towards the evening we dragged one of the dog houses donated for Pro Animals Romania's shelter to "the city part of the shelter" since there were too few dog houses in there. One of these donated dog houses had been taken there already in advance. When we tried to buy a couple of pallets from a store across the shelter to use as an extra shelter for the dogs we were harshly turned down. There were tons of pallets outside the store but apparently the attitude towards the dog shelter was so negative that no cooperation whatsoever could be expected from their behalf. By the way this store mentioned above sold products from Rannila and Ruukki. 

At some point in the afternoon we found out that about 200 meters across the road a newly-opened Honda-store was having an opening ceremony and there would be fireworks later that evening. We promised to stay at the shelter as long as the fireworks would last since the dogs would be very restless. The fireworks began at 7:30 pm and for some reason they had decided to shoot those fireworks right across the shelter. Our group split around the shelter and we tried our best to calm the dogs down and luckily this time we managed to avoid panic and the accidents the panic might cause. When we had secured that everything was alright in the shelter, we finally exhaled in relief and went to tidy ourselves up to the hotel. 

Later in the evening we were invited over Patricia's to eat some pizza and catch up on things. On our way to Patricia's home we also visited her office. There were the office cat Mitzi and a tiny little Bitza that Patricia had saved nearly hairless and stomach full of worms from the city early-March. Bitza was really the liveliest little dog! The dog continued relentlessly to challenge the bigger Mitzi to play. We were glad to see that Bitza would have a happy future ahead of him after the rocky beginning he had had. 

At Patricia's we gave Carmena the things we had brought for her from Finland. We were happy to see how delighted and excited Carmena was when she went through the sent gifts. While we watched how touched Carmena looked we were really glad that we had realized to bring something personal just for her since these gifts obviously had a cheery effect on her. We had brought cosmetics, jewellery, scarves, coats, gloves, vitamins and even warm handmade woollen socks that are really important while working in the shelter. As a little hint for Sanna; we will need more of those socks next winter! We also gave 720 euros that were donated for Carmena personally. Carmena asked us to pass on her most sincere thanks for all of her friends in Finland and told that she would want so badly to come and greet you in Finland. That's what we hope, too!

It was already a little past midnight when we wandered back to our hotel and got under the covers to sleep a little.