New hive installation... only one problem

Our two hives from last year dies over the winter.  One lived through until about 2 weeks ago... but it was clearly queenly when we checked it about a month ago.  Not sure what happened to either hive as they both had plenty of food.  We had many queen problems last year and that may have contributed to their lack of strength as a hive over the winter.  We also didn't start feeding early enough and then we had a early hard freeze.

But yesterday we installed 2 new packages.  Starting over, but in a better position than last year.  Why?  Because we have plenty of frames with drawn out comb so the bees wont have to focus initially on simply drawing out comb.  It takes a huge amount of energy and resources for the bees to make wax and built comb.  there is also a fair amount of honey capped... although we ave bene warned that the honey may be fermented and that could cause a dysentery type situation if they eat too much of it.  I did test the honey and it didn't taste fermented to me.  And like I said we did have bees in the one hive up until 2 weeks ago... so who knows.

One problem we did have... the queen got out of her cage when we were installing the east hive.  I was able to catch her and hold her.  After a few minutes of panic... we realized we really only had one option and that was to put her in.  So I quickly "threw" her in the middle and Dave poured the package on top.  I saw her walking around on the top of a frame for a tad... saw multiple bees surround her in a non-menacing way.  She then started walking into the middle of the hive.  We then put the top on.

This queen has been with the package since California.  They drove up here and we picked the packages up Wednesday.  We didn't end up installing them until Thursday... so I'm thinking she was with the bees for at least 3-4 days and maybe longer.  Hopefully they wont kill her.