Help!!! My Blues are Printing Purple

I am using windows 8.1 printing from Lightroom. I calibrated my monitor with an X-rite Color Munki Photo. At first I thought it was Prophoto vs Adobe RGB, but my latest print shows that is not the problem.
I printed from Lightroom with Lightroom managing color (I checked for out of gaumit color, and manually brought colors back into gaumit). My Blue sky was Purple.
I printed from Lightroom with printer managing color. My Blue sky again was Purple
I printed from Windows Photo Viewer (standard windows viewer) with printer managing color. My Blue sky was Blue, and matched my monitor pretty well.
Any help would be appreciated. I want to use all the features of Lightroom.
Here is a jpg of the file I'm trying to print.

I have an epson 3880 with Windows 8.1 with epson glossy photo paper. I downloaded the icc profile from epson, and made sure the printer was not managing color. I downloaded the latest drivers from epson. I softproof, and bring the out of gamut colors in gamut, and make a proof copy. For landscape, I use perceptual rendering intent.

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