//18-5-20
#pragma GCC optimize ("-O2")
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS 1

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
#include <ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>
using namespace __gnu_pbds;
using namespace std;
using namespace std :: chrono;

#define scu(n)                        scanf("%u",&n)
#define scl(n)                        scanf("%d",&n)
#define scll(n)                       scanf("%lld",&n)
#define sz(a)                         (int)a.size()
#define  maxN                         1005
#define uu                            first
#define vv                            second
#define ll                            long long
#define U                             unsigned
#define pb                            push_back
#define mp                            make_pair
#define pii                           pair<int,int>
#define vi                            vector<int>
#define mii                           map<int,int>
#define Pi                            acos(-1.0)
#define endl                         "\n"
#define pqb                           priority_queue<int>
#define pqs                           priority_queue<int,vi,greater<int> >
#define setbits(x)                    __builtin_popcountll(x)
#define zrobits(x)                    __builtin_ctzll(x)
#define mod                           1000000007
#define inf                           1e18
#define ps(x,y)                       fixed<<setprecision(y)<<x
#define mk(arr,n,type)                type *arr=new type[n];
#define TEST                          int x; cin>>x; while(x--)
mt19937                               rng(chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch().count());

typedef tree<int, null_type, less<int>, rb_tree_tag, tree_order_statistics_node_update> pbds;

//Vector Macros
#define pb                            push_back
#define eb                            emplace_back
#define ALL(v)                        v.begin(),v.end()
#define UNIQUE(v)                     v.erase(unique(ALL(v)),v.end())
#define MIN(c)                        *min_element(ALL(c))
#define MAX(c)                         *max_element(ALL(c))
#define SUM(c)                         accumulate(ALL(c),0)

//Loop Macros
#define For(i,a,b)                     for(ll i=a;i<=b;i++)
#define rep(i,a,b)                     for(int i=a;i<=b;i++)
#define fr(i,n)                       for(ll i=0;i<n;i++)

//Debug Macros
#define open                           freopen("input.txt","r",stdin);
#define close                          freopen("output.txt","w",stdout);
#define deb(a)                         cout << #a << " : " << a << " ";
#define debln(a)                       cout<< #a <<" : " << a << endl;
//Print Macros
#define print(v)  for(auto x : v) {  cout<<x<<" ";   }  cout<<endl;
#define PRINT(v)  for(auto x : v) { cout<<x.uu<<" "<<x.vv<<endl;}

/*
Time Calculation :
auto st = high_resolution_clock::now();
auto en = high_resolution_clock::now();
auto duration = duration_cast < milliseconds > (en-st);
cout<< "consumed time in ms " << duration.count() <<endl;
*/

const int INF = 1e9 + 5;

int main()
{
    ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
    cin.tie(0);

    int n;
    scl(n);

    vector<int>h(n);

    for(int &x : h)
        scl(x);
    //print(h)

    vector<int>dp(n,INF);
    dp[0] = 0;

    for(int i=0; i<n; ++i)
    {
        for(int j:
                {
                    i+1,i+2
                })
        {
            if(j<n)
                dp[j] = min(dp[j], dp[i] + abs(h[i] - h[j]) );
        }
    }

    //print(dp);
    printf("%d\n",dp[n-1]);

    return 0;
}


Measured memory_bytes: 1024