This is the town square.  At the end you can see the city hall.  Also at that end is a really cool
bronze fountain showing a couple embracing.  Much better than your typical dead European statue.

This is the tallest building in Tartu.  It houses the offices of  one of the local banks and one of the
TV stations.  You can pay about a dollar and they let you go on top of the building.  And I'm not
talking about an observation room, I'm saying they let you out on the top of the building.  There
are signs telling you not to jump, but I wonder how long that will last.

This is the Emajogi river.  Ema means mother and jogi means river, so what I really just said was,
"This is the Mother river river." Oh well... it runs through the center of the city.

This thirteenth century church ruin is on top of a hill.  The hill is a large park with
many statues and monuments.  The opposite end of the church was restored and made into
the University History Museum.  The yellow signs warn that the 'building is liable to fall down.'

This is a statue commemorating Tartu's population reaching 100,000.  If Emporia got one of these,
it'd be for the population reaching 25... just kidding.

This is the building that the post office (Eesti Post) is in.  Nothing that special, but maybe
I just made someone's day because of this picture.

A walking bridge is near to the main university buildings.  It's up the street about a half a block from
the building where I study.

Here is the city hall. In German it would be called rathaus and in a very rough translation,
 no Jay was not in on this one, we refer to it as the 'Rat House.' Don't ask me...

This is the infamous 'Leaning Building.' One half is built on the ancient town wall,
and the other half on pillars in the ground. When the ground water level fell, the side
supported by pillars dropped down. It is a little hard to see in pictures, but trust me it leans.
Look at the door frame.  It's got a good gallery of Estonian art inside.

Here is the most famous walking bridge in Tartu.  It's said that if you walk over the top arch of the
bridge, than you are automatically a citizen of Tartu.  I'm still an immigrant.

This is inside the greenhouse at the botanical gardens.  They have some pretty impressive plants
here.

This is a statue in front of the botanical gardens.  It's made entirely of flower pots.  I thought that
was kind of cool, so now you get to see it.

This statue is in the outdoor portions of the botanical gardens.  Posted by request from my mother.

This is the the Kaubamaja (pronounced cow-ba-maya).  Kaubamaja actually means department
store (what an original name, department store?), but it's the one in town we like to go to.  This place
even has DVD's!  How cool is that?

I saw this on a building while walking one day.  Apparently, they put straw on in order to have some-
thing for the stucco to stick to.  Apparently, it didn't work on this building.  Our building is made of
brick, with outside walls about two feet thick.