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Members of the Txoko Ona Basque Club, in Homedale, Idaho celebrated, this past Saturday, their annual fall dinner. They sold out the 130 tickets and enjoyed a dinner cooked by chef Jesus Alcelay. “We had such a good time that at the end we even forgot to toast for the mus players,” said joking Gloria Garatea Lejardi, member of the euskal etxea, to EuskalKultura.com.

Homedale, USA. By Saturday evening, members of the Txoko Ona Basque Club already knew local brothers Tony and Darren Uranga got fourth at the World Mus Championship in Cancun, Mexico. Right after hapenning. “Their families were posting on Facebook, so we knew how they were doing,” explained Lejardi. “But we had such a good time that at the end we even forgot to toast for them,” she added, jokingly.

On October the 25^th, Txoko Ona celebrated its annual fall dinner at their building, for the eighth time. “Our club is small and we don’t have dancers and music in our fall dinner, but we enjoy ourselves,” she says. Jesus Alcelay was the cook for this event and prepared, with the help of some members, leek soup, salad, roasted potatoes, roasted beef with mushroom sauce, cod fish, and a rice pudding for dessert. Early birds showed up at around 5 p.m., even though the dinner was not going to be served until an hour and a half later. By 10:30 p.m. everybody had left.

Their next dinner will be on January 12, followed in February by the local mus tournament and a dance in March. But they are already discussing how to host the 2015 NABO Mus Tournament. “We have some ideas. The Board of Directors and the mus chairman will be in charge of it. Our building is a very good place to host the tournament," Lejardi concluded.