text: nAfter dinner in RM Seafood at the Mandalay Bay my ex and I strolled over to the Excalibur hotel and found ourselves at the Pearl Factory kiosk I have seen them at various other locations San Francisco practically every other Las Vegas hotel and there is even one at Downtown Disney My ex after a hint from me thought it would be a great idea to get me a pearl souvenir for the fab price of I was not worried about whether or not I would like the pearl I was more focused on the excitement of choosing my own oyster and the subsequent opening of itnnI have to tell you I only wanted my darling to spend the dollars and high tail outta there But nothing ever goes the way you want it to nnSo the time came I went to go choose my oyster Let me tell you I am SUPER indecisive and SUPER picky That makes for a bad combo They had two baskets to choose from but I was disciplined and only limited myself to one otherwise I would have been there ALL night I almost was So after a while of poking turning asking my boyfriend for his humble opinion I finally picked my oyster It was the fattest one of the bunch After the cheesey tapping ALOHAAAA and ringing of the bell my pearl expert opened the oyster and out came not one but TWO lustrous round pearls nnThe Chinese inside of me was saying SWEET TWO FOR ONE DEAL and I was about to pack up my pearls and get on to boozingshopping but then the girl selling me the pearls gasped and said TWINS I have not seen those in months This is almost as rare as black pearls And a green luster to them too that stands for longevity Huh Rare eh Oooo she caught my interestnnI told her I just wanted the pearls and that I would come back later She looked at me and said well why do not you just get the backings for the earrings that way at least you get to wear them nnNext thing you know she was showing me diamond and white gold settings for pendants rings earrings ranging from I was trying the rings on looking at the earrings and we spent a good hour looking at all the different settings After a while I saw my compa ion literally start to SWEAT haha He was probably thinking to himself I came here thinking I would only pay but now she wants a white gold and diamond setting I did not sign up for thisnnBut I was a good and just choose a pair of white gold backings Total damage backings were pearls taxnnI mean it was a lot of fun and I feel sorry for the girl because I took up a lot of her time agonizing over what setting to buy and then ultimately ended up purchasing the cheapest thing there But seriously pearls in a setting This is where they get you you go for the pearl and you end up buying a setting for it Because in your mind what is the use of a loose pearl when you can actually put it to use and add it to your jewelry collectionnnAhh yeah they got me I later read on this site that the oyster hosts for the pearls are not even the original hosts the company places the pearls in the oysters and then later submerges them in alcohol to make them close and preserve them for shipment to all the different Pearl factory locations So a bit of advice come here prepared to spend some dough if you decide that a pearl from the Pearl Factory is calling out your name next time you are in Vegas