Migrating from Picasa to Elements

I have always used picasa, and have many thousands of pics on Picasa. I want to move my entire workflow to Elements 7 on windows 7.
Is there any simple way to migrate Picasa albums to Elements?

Interesting Query...
I myself have migrated from Picasa to Photoshop Elements long time back.... But I had few images that time.. I have one solution for you if you were organizing through Folders and if you want those folders as Albums in Photoshop Elements...
Simple workflow is:
- Launch Organizer
- Import all the files into a new Catalog of Organizer
- Go to Folder View
- Select one Folder.. you get an optoon to create instant Album >> Just click on that option and an album will be created. This album will have all the files in that folder and same name will be assigned to that Album...
If files are not organized in folder, there is no standard workflow to migrate from Picasa to Photoshop Elements..
And I have used Photoshop Elements 7 .. Now converted PSE7 catalog of 14000 images (Most of them are NEF) to PSE8 and it works fine for me :-)
I am very happy with this great Product having rich features.... Ohh, Did I miss to mention that Face Recognition in 8th release of Photoshop elements rock!!!

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