Just to confuse the he-er-high heavens out of you, I guess i will add my knowledge on this subject.
Arwen marries Aragorn and gives up the immortal life for the fate of man (no surprise there...)
Elrohir and Elladan are given the choice of immortality or the same fate as their sister but they must sail across with his father if they wish to keep the immortality. They toil in M-E and become the Lords of Rivendell for a bit until after a few years they take up with their grandfather, Celeborn, and go into the west-where Galadriel already is.
As for 'Celeborn went to Southern Mirkwood' From what I gather, he and Thranduil renamed the realm of Mirkwood 'Eryn Lasgalen' and split it into two, Thranduil took the northern parts all the way to the mountains that rise in the forests of his realm and Celeborn took the Southern woods below the Narrows and called it East Lorien. But after the passing of Galadriel, he grows weary where he goes off with his grandsons to live in Rivendell for a bit then they all go across the seas. Thranduil remains for quite some time after Celeborn and the twins pass, but eventually, he and the last of his people go, leaving Legolas behind.
Galadriel was not on the last boat to the that went into the west, she was in fact, on one of the first. Legolas and Gimli were on the last boat, and thus ends the story of the Lord of the Rings.
I hope my understanding of the story is at least a bit helpful to any out there that are just as confused as I am.
Sincerely,
Daegwenn
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"And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
A highwayman comes riding—
Riding—Riding—
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard.
And he taps with his whip on the shutters, but all is locked and barred.
He whistles a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord’s black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord’s daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair"
Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
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