Post Mahabharata

All of us remember the great war of Mahabharata, some by having rigored through the pages of the epic, while others having enjoyed it as a sunday morning TV serial. Most of the limelight was stolen therein by the panadavas & kauravas and their differences. To top the glamor quotient of the story was Lord Krishna, whom because of Godhood status none of us could ignore.
The battle of kurukshetra, namely Mahabharata is often camouflaged by the valor & events that took place prior & during the war. But i was really wondering how many of us belonging to this age actually know about what happened thereafter, and moreso what happened to the victorious pandavas. Was it really, another of those all's well that ends well kind of stories?
The answer to this was not known to me myself ( me belonging to 'this age people' that I am talking about). so I did little bit of googling to find out this:

In the years that follow the war Dhritarashtra and his queen Gandhari, and Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, lived a life of asceticism in a forest retreat and died with yogic calm in a forest fire. Krishna Vasudeva and his always unruly clan slaughtered each other in a drunken brawl thirty-six years after the war, and Krishna's soul dissolved back into the Supreme God Vishnu (Krishna had been born when a part of Vishnu took birth in the womb of Krishna's mother). When they learned of this, the Pandavas believed it time for them to leave this world too and they embarked upon the 'Great Journey,' which involved walking north toward the polar mountain, that is toward the heavenly worlds, until one's body dropped dead. One by one Draupadi and the younger Pandavas died along the way until Yudhishthira was left alone with a dog that had followed him all the way. Yudhishthira made it to the gate of heaven and there refused the order to drive the dog back, at which point the dog was revealed to be an incarnate form of the God Dharma (the God who was Yudhishthira's actual, physical father), who was there to test Yudhishthira's virtue. Once in heaven Yudhishthira faced one final test of his virtue: He saw only the Dhartarashtras in heaven, and he was told that his brothers were in hell. He insisted on joining his brothers in hell, if that be the case! It was then revealed that they were really in heaven, that this illusion had been one final test for him. So ends the Mahabharata!
source(http://web.utk.edu/~jftzgrld/MBh1Story.html)

Interesting I thought!!