Chris Schroder picked up the phone and heard a familiar voice on the other end. What he didn't know was that this phone call would lead to new family, unbreakable bonds and a sharing of different cultures an ocean away.
A generation in the making story came full circle Tuesday in Cape Coral, as Schroder showed his godchildren exactly how he and their father met one fateful day decades ago.
It all started in 1992. Schroder was a division chief for the Cape Coral Fire Department when his buddy from the Rotary Club, Tad Nobbe, called to tell him he had to meet a firefighter from Germany.
Mike Hobbold, a firefighter on a fireboat in Dusseldorf, Germany, ended up at Tad's Marina, thanks so some boat troubles from the vessel he was renting while visiting the city.