At 7 pm Carmena told us that she had to go home since the newsclip relating to Rona, the horse, would be in the evening news and Carmena wanted to see it. We promised to finish up the chores at the shelter and give Vasile a ride home. We did some cleaning up in the warehouse building and said the dogs goodnight by checking that everyone had a place to sleep, the bowls were full of water and there was food to eat. It was already 9 pm when we locked the place up and drove back to the hotel.

Carmena and Patricia came at 9:30 pm to meet us at the hotel. We ate some evening snack there and talked about our day. Carmena told about the evening news related to Rona and called the manager of the TV-channel to ask a newsclip in DVD-format for our use. Before we even noticed it was already past midnight and we were all awfully tired. We wished Carmena and Patricia goodnight and went to sleep. 

Soon after I went to bed I woke up to realize I had a terrible headache. I tried to take pills for the pain but they were no use and at some point I started to feel really ill and that lasted for hours and hours straight. Naturally at the daybreak I was pale as a ghost and completely exhausted. I was meant to go to the bank with Patricia before 9 am and see the Carbunesti dog shelter after that but I was forced to stay at the hotel to rest and have others do the things I had agreed to do myself. 

After noon I was starting to feel a bit better and called Jukka to pick me up to the shelter. Even though I had been in a really weak condition I was terribly disappointed that I had lost half a day. When I arrived at the shelter I was relieved to find out that all the agreed things had been wonderfully taken care of and even the washing machine bought for Carmena waited in the back of our rental car ready to be taken to Carmena's home. 

Jukka told me that once again there had been some difficulties in the bank. First they had once again questioned how to deposit the donations to Pro Animals Romania's account but luckily it had all sorted out in a reasonable amount of time. Anu told that when they had bought the washing machine for Carmena she almost had lost her nerves since the salesperson had written a receipt after another. Anu had also felt that they had doubted whether her Visa-card was forged since she had to sign five receipts before they managed to buy the washing machine! 

Anu joined Carmena and Patricia to check the shelter maintained by the city of Carbunesti. They were not let inside the shelter. However, Patricia climbed over the closed gate and got a few photos of the shelter itself. There had also been a little cattle shelter in the shelter area with a cow tied to a short tether and a youngish calf. 

Heli and Jukka had tried to explore the caravan once more trying to find possible mice holes. Unfortunately there were so many hideouts that finding any holes was impossible. We hope that the ultrasound-mouse trap in the warehouse building would have some kind of an effect also on the caravan. 

I spent the Saturday afternoon with the shelter dogs since the next day I wouldn't get the chance anymore. I was feeling a bit wistful when I petted the dogs and thought how I'd love so much if on some of our shelter trips I could just spend every day with these friends without having anything else to do. Sure helping at the shelter and other things related to Carmena and Patricia's routines are important but the shelter dogs enjoy to be petted and talked to so much that I'd feel awful if I'd pay no attention to them. 

At some point I noticed that Jukka was washing the corridors of the shelter with a hose and filled up water bowls with the friendly guidance from Vasile. Anu looked to be very much in her thoughts sitting with a little puppy in her lap and having adult dogs hassling around her on a roof of a dog house. Carita and Heli were also wandering around the shelter petting the dogs, promising to come back soon. Every one of us was probably more or less thinking about the departure home the next day, feeling a bit sad.

At some point we managed to say goodbye to the dogs living in the city's side of the shelter since the employee left at about 3 pm and would come back not until the next day.