Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie pinned down some family time at a French bowling alley Monday as their vacation rolled to an end, PEOPLE has learned.
Before jetting off from their 10-day vacation in the western Charente/Dordogne region, the couple took over France's smallest family fun center "Le Palace Vert" with friend Mariane Pearl and her son.
Le Palace Vert's owner Patrick Bernard tells PEOPLE that once they arrived, the Jolie-Pitts, Pearl and the four children (Maddox, 5, Pax-Thien, 3, and Zahara, 2, and Adam Pearl, 5) hit the lanes.
Pitt was especially attentive, Bernard adds, and encouraged all the youngsters whenever they hit a pin.
"At one point though, because the children don't have the strength to always get the ball down the lane, it sometimes stops. Brad thought he'd go down the lane to push it along. He slipped and fell on his back. Hard," Bernard tells PEOPLE.
Pitt survived the spill, but Bernard's wife was disappointed to have missed her "only chance in life to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Brad Pitt."
While Jolie spent time with Pearl, whom she portrayed in A Mighty Heart, Pitt demonstrated his air-hockey prowess.
"Brad was particularly good at it," Bernard says. "He and the three boys played two-a-side teams against one another for almost an hour."
Bernard adds: "With only two lanes we're certainly the smallest bowling in France, so we're still having trouble realizing we spent Monday afternoon with the most famous couple in the world."
Before leaving, Jolie and Pitt personally thanked the Bernards – speaking a little French – and signed a Livre d'Or with an inscription to the couple's 15-year-old daughter.
This wasn't the first amusement area the crew was spotted enjoying recently. Pitt made a scene in the bouncy castle when they all spent a day at the Aventure-Parc in Massignac.

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Oh to have been a fly on the wall!!! I wonder who the best bowler is...
1Happy to be hearing more about them as this Lohan hoopla heats up.
I wish we had pictures, it would be so cuuute!
2yeah I would have loved to see those pix too
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Don't worry 'bout a ting!
I love that they're just trying to get out and do some normal things with their kids. I'm sick of hearing the vicious rumors about them and all the scandals of other celebs, so this is great!
4Thats cute and like ALSW said normal. I'm gonna need therapy if the ever break up
Style Before Comfort!
5Hahaha, I agree LaLa we will have to start a therapy group if they ever split...
6Wow, how awesome!
7Oh man! I know... intensive therapy if they ever split....
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8"Monkeys in my heart"
I just posted the same.. I will erase mine! LOL!
9hahah aww, you dont have to do that! keep it up, the more pitts, the merrier.
10Yay. A nice, happy story.
11Bowling is the only "sport" I play!
12Hope they've a great vacation.
13Redhot-- i want to go
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