I priced them on the low side to try to move them quickly - around here they go for $165-$185 from what I can tell.

Selling them was easier than I thought. The guy that bought them said that a Dadant (the oldest and maybe the largest beekeeping supplier in the US) truck full of bee packages on its way from CA to deliver Saturday crashed in Wyoming Friday. Dadant's HQ is about 3 hours from here (20 minutes from Nauvoo) and a bee pick-up location - they have several locations across the country. Anyway, my timing was good with the crash - lots of local hobbyists looking for colonies.

I can honestly say that is the most fun I have ever had making $300. I am second guessing myself whether I should have kept one of the two, but I was worried that I might need the capacity for another colony (but I doubt it).

Yesterday I was inspecting my hives, but I didn't take a video of it (my other videos are here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPByQ05Cor-2XxZoH3oTAxg ). I wished that I had taken a video. I actually saw a queen hatch. We were checking on the status of the queen cells on the colony that swarmed and as we were looking at it, the queen came crawling out. Talk about being lucky with the timing...She looked beautiful. Hopefully she will be a strong queen.