Cassoulet Party

Thursday night Bertrand and Claire invited us over for dinner. We were told that we would be having a very traditional French dinner. There was a couple from Holland there, as well as another friend of Bertrand and Claire. The dinner that Claire prepared was Cassoulet. I did some research on Wikipedia so that I could accurately describe the dish for you.
Cassoulet (from Occitan caçolet [kasuˈlet]) is a rich, slow-cooked bean stew or casserole originating in the southwest of France, containing meat (typically pork sausages, pork, goose, duck and sometimes mutton), pork skin (couennes) and white haricot beans.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassoulet
Wikipedia also said that cassoulet has been made in Eastern Europe using a farm animal that had to be put down (old milking cow, horse, etc). The long, slow cooking tenderizes the meat and is a sign of respect for the hard work of that animal. Luckily for us, Bertrand and Claire had not recently put down any animals! So we just had pork in our cassoulet. Claire also served a sauted duck with the cassoulet. Then we had a cheese course, THEN we had dessert. I was stuffed by the time we left. Everything was delicious and we also met 3 really great new people! Here are some pictures from Bertrand's camera- again, I forgot mine, so "Thanks Bertie!" (Bertrand, Matthew told me to call you that, not sure why!)
Here are some pictures of the night:

What was left of Claire's Cassoulet (the whole dish was full when we started!)

The girls cleaning up, but where is Kim...
Oh, yeah! She got locked in the bathroom. Don't worry, Claire got a very large butcher knife and jimmied the lock! :)