I finally got to Paris a couple of days ago, so I've done a preliminary sweep through photos I took and have time to give a more detailed trip report.

Denmark/Sweden:

Copenhagen, after Bruges, was my favorite place on the trip.  Super clean and civilized (no gates on the metro), like a lot of Scandinavian places, and beautiful color palette on the buildings.  Really charming place.  Not a ton to see in terms of tourist sites but probably a great place to live, much like Singapore.  Best bit was Vor Frelsers Kirke, which has an exterior spiral staircase leading up to the spire that I climbed.  Feels a lot like climbing a skyscraper, if that skyscraper were built in the 1600s and seemed like it might disintegrate at any moment.  That thing creaked and swayed in the heavy and had uncomfortably low railings.  A fun thing to do once.  Also, Tivoli Gardens was a pretty charming amusement park, and had this one cool thrill ride that had a joystick that let you control the ride, flipping and spinning yourself around.  Really cool, and I've never heard of or seen a ride you control yourself before.  

On the first night, I met up with a couple of people that are on my Paris program and happened to be in Copenhagen.  We went out to dinner and then, the next day, I went up to Helsingør (Elsinore), with one of them, then took the ferry to Sweden, train down a bit of Sweden, and then the famous Öresundsbron back to Copenhagen.  It was a good day trip, and I got to see a tiny bit of Sweden.  The next day I went to the aforementioned Tivoli Gardens, and then got on the sleeper train to Amsterdam.

Went to Paris last weekend.  Highlight sights of the trip were the Musée des Arts et Metiers, returning to the carnival we used to go to when I was little, and the catacombs.  Dad and Cha, when you go later this month, definitely check out the museum at least.  It's one of the best I've ever been to, and totally uncrowded.  The carnival may or may not still be running by the time you get there, but it's completely unchanged and super fun.  (Catacombs are incredible but might be a bit grim for the kids.)  

Here are some pics:

Here are some more pics of London, picking up where I left off:

Here are some assorted pics of London so far...

So continuing from the last account...

We got a new guide the next day in Marrakech who was incredible.  He was one of the better guides I've ever had and naturally way better than the one we'd fired the day before.  Marrakech is indeed pretty neat, though I'd still say Fes is better.

Hello from Marrakech.  The places we've been staying in Morocco have so far not been great with the wi-fi, hence the lack of communication.  

We made it through the grueling travel day from Granada and took the ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar from Tarifa to Tangier, as planned.  The ferry ride was hugely rocky, which was fun for me because I don't get seasick, but much of the boat was vomiting for the 25-minute ride.  

Trip update:  In Granada now, staying at an old convent on the grounds of the Alhambra.  I booked the hotel cuz it seemed like a great location and a historical building.  And it is indeed a great location, but they seem to have done everything in their power to make the inside as saccharine as a Days Inn.  Oh well.

Madrid was nice.  Saw Guernica.

I think we're gonna try to go to Segovia (which has an awesome aqueduct) and/or Toledo.  It's a little tricky fitting anything else in since tomorrow is X-mas and everything will be closed.  Still need to see the Prado and Reina Sofia (the newer museum where most of the stuff I'm especially interested in, including Guernica, got moved to from the Prado), so that'll have to be the 26th.  Might go to Segovia tomorrow since an aqueduct doesn't need to be "open" per se.  

Side note -- 2hrs53mins from Barcelona to Madrid on the train today -- not too shabby.  300km/hr.

Here're a few pics of the trip to Egypt with Dad.