Yay, you wrote a post about the elective :) Btw, I'm considering the same thing...well, I'm trying to decide whether to make my parents pay for a Pro account...

Since we're probably going to take a LOT of pictures for the elective, it might be reasonable to upgrade to a Pro account, since you get unlimited storage space and bandwidth, while in Picasa, for example, you only get 25 Gigabytes for the same price per year...

Now I convinced myself that I need to convince my parents to do just that :D