Can someone take my hand after the chemicals and pool is clean on closing

[matt4x4]

Tracey,
The aqualuminator - just disconnect the cap, wires, take the bulb out, now you should be able to look straight through it into your pool - if that's it, you're done with that part. You should only have the thin flange left showing inside the pool.
Of course, drain your pool below the aqua lum return first or else you get wet.
I only drain to below the return, no further, rain and snow just fills it back up again anyways.
Keep any shutoff valves open.
Disconnect hoses from pool, take out drain plugs from pump and filter, place BOTH plugs in your basket inside the pump for storage.
Unbolt the multiport valve from filter, any gaskets and bolts that come off with that should also go into pump strainer. Close pump strainer lid to safeguard loose components.
Take everything you've just removed to a frost free location - Garage/basement.
Place a large garbage bag over the filter since the top is now open, bungee it on, but let the drain plug opening show beneath the bungee so it can continue to drain without ending up in the bag's folds.
Leave filter as is (leave sand inside it) and don't try to move it, it won't get damaged through freezing, but will get damaged through moving it.

You should now have a pool with a water level below the return, no light head in the return opening, nothing connected to either hose connections outside of pool, with a filter casing only standing beside the pool - covered.
Everything else should be inside.
You can cover the pool if you want to, I don't bother, I have no leaves to speak of and found it less strain on my pool structure to forego the cover completely (high winds). It just freezes solid for the winter and is less work to open come spring.
I keep my solar cover on the roller, but roll it up real slow so water doesn't collect between the layers (it still does to some degree) so every day or so when I pass it I give it half a turn in the roll up direction, after a week or two of that, any remnants of h2o between layers will have rolled through it and out the end. I bungee that with 4 bungees after wrapping it in one of those white protective sheets.
All pool equip - poles etc come in the garage for the winter.
Any drop in steps/weights also have to come out.