Hi everyone,

I hope you all enjoyed the June events. You have until July 15th to finish buying your items at the Event Shop. Pride Week continues through end of day July 4th. As you work on Drew quests, don't forget to enter our Drew Quest Contest. And starting tomorrow, bluetaz2001 is back with her Pop a Balloon Event followed by her Who Am I? trivia Event. I'm not sure about Recipe Revival and Gourmet Gala. They were on the calendar last year, but never actually happened. Most likely new microwave recipes and retired gourmet foods at the time machine.

Thanks to everyone who has been donating to help out fellow clubbies. If you would like to help out for July, here is our focus for the month:

JULY (July 4th, Recipe Revival, Gourmet Gala)
Red, White, Blue, Navy, American, Firework, Explosion, Gourmet Food, Gourmet Minis (except the candy corn ones from October Pancake Pandemonium) , Toy Blocks for Puny Pyramid, Keys for Transformation Pyramid, Runes for Transubstantiation Pyramid, retired/retiring stars (Auriga, Bootes, Camelopardalis, Carina, Centaurus, Columba, Equuleus, Gemini, Taurus), Galaxy, Starry, Star, Space, Space Fairy, Planet, Alien, UFO, Robot, Robot Minis for Tableaus Temple, Moon, Extraterrestrial, Moonlight, Daylight, Sparkle, Spurkle, Digital, Arcade, Strobe, Pixel, Anime, Cartoon, Negative, Defective, Cyber, Glitch(ed), Blackout, Corrupted, Ziranek Corrupted Event, Twinkle, Solar Flare items, Microwave items, Planet Patrol items, Super Hero Society items, Cosmic Cleanup items, Alien Invasion items, Rocket, Gravity, Supernova, Cosmic, Nebula, Apocalypse items (including from Apocalypse TC), Survival, Toxic, Toxik, Tardi, Capsule Machine Tokens, Mechanical Menagerie Tokens, retired Neptune Footwear, July

BANNERS: We have some great 4th of July and summer banners. Go check them out! As always, if you would like to design and add a banner, I'll award 25K Club Points for each banner.
link to ATM banner blog: www.marapets.com

2026 CALENDAR
6/28-7/5 Pride Week (Pride Shop link www.marapets.com )
7/1-7/15 ATM Pop a Balloon Event (bluetaz2001) w

In honor of Pride Week, here's a Drew Quest Challenge.

The challenge starts Sunday, June 28, 2025 and will run through end of day Saturday, July 4th. You can begin as soon as the Mara clock rolls over to June 28th. You do not need to wait for Ian to start the Pride Week event.

Everyone who enters will win 10,000 club points. Winners will be awarded points in addition to the entry award. So for example if you come in 3rd place you win 50K + 10K = 60K

FIRST PLACE: 100,000 Club Points
SECOND PLACE: 75,000 Club Points
THIRD PLACE: 50,000 Club Points
FOURTH PLACE: 25,000 Club Points
FIFTH PLACE: 10,000 Club Points

Prizes will be award to the person who does the most quests in the allotted time. In the event of a tie, the winners will be assigned a number and a random number generator will decide winners.

To enter, First, post your username. Then, post your beginning number of Drew quests below in the comments section. Go to the Drew Quests page. toward the top left you should see your total.

Example of what an entry looks like:
Gwylynnsgarden
START: You have completed 10,291 Drew quests

At the end of the contest (or earlier if you feel you are done questing) , go back to the Drew Quest page, copy and paste your finishing totals on the blog below, along with your username.

Example of what a finishing entry looks like:
Gwylynnsgarden
START: You have completed 10,291 Drew quests
END: You have completed 14,684 Drew Quests

Winners will be announced here and in club chat.


RESULTS
nicecat2 START: You have completed 2,446 Drew quests
END: You have completed 3,648 Drew quests
TOTAL: 1202
FIRST: 100,000 + 10,000 = 110,000 Club Points

Chall231 START: You have completed 4908 Drew quests
END: You have completed 5901 Drew Quests
TOTAL: 993
SECOND: 75,000 +10,000 = 85,000 Club Points

TazLuvr START: 13,180
END: 13,686
TOTAL: 506
THIRD: 50,000 + 10,000 = 60,000 Club Points

Corrected due to transposing numbers error
Nina19 Start: You have completed 30,495 Drew quests
END: 30,974
TOTAL: 29
FOURTH: 25,000 + 10,000 = 35,000 Club Points

Cygnet Start: You have completed 9,428 Drew quests END: 9,803
TOTAL: 375
FOURTH: 25,000 + 10,000 =

2026 CALENDAR
6/28-7/5 Pride Week (Pride Shop link www.marapets.com )
7/1-7/15 ATM Pop a Balloon Event (bluetaz2001) www.marapets.com
7/1 Canada Day
7/4 Fourth of July
7/11 Recipe Revival
7/15 Event Shop closes - Event Shop link www.marapets.com
7/16-7/31 ATM Who Am I? Trivia Event (bluetaz2001) www.marapets.com
7/20 Gourmet Gala

Add another questing contest? Robot Repair. Microwave, Cosmonaut fit the theme.

FOURTH OF JULY (from 2026)
All American pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym today

All American pets will receive FREE LESSONS at the School and University today

The Costumes Boutique has the American Costume on sale today until midnight

RECIPE REVIVAL (from 2026)

All Cheese and Chocolate pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym today

All Cheese and Chocolate pets will receive FREE LESSONS at the School and University today

Also had 14 new microwave recipes, the new recipe collection, recipe collection giftbox, new Cheese Potions at the Potions Boutique, and finished off cheese costumes.

GOURMET GALA (from 2026)

All Chocolate pets will receive FREE TRAINING at the Gym and Elite Gym today

All Chocolate pets will receive FREE LESSONS at the School and University today

The Potions Boutique is featuring Chocolate Potions today, including 9 brand new items

The Time Machine has a new Gourmet Gala promotion. From now until July 27th, 2026 you can choose between the current prize list or a special Gourmet Food Only Prize List whenever you use the Time Machine

Also got 25 new Obese Fairy prizes and 23 new Microwave Recipes

ongoing from June:
ATM DREW QUEST CHALLENGE:
In honor of Pride Week, here's a Drew Quest Challenge.

The challenge starts Sunday, June 28, 2025 and will run through end of day Saturday, July 4th. You can begin as