// Slower C++ solution:
#include<bits/stdc++.h>

#include <ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>

#include <ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>

using namespace __gnu_pbds;

using namespace std;

#define DEBUG

#ifdef DEBUG

#define debug(...) __f(#__VA_ARGS__, __VA_ARGS__)

	template <typename Arg1>

	void __f(const char* name, Arg1&& arg1){

		cerr << name << " : " << arg1 << std::endl;

	}

	template <typename Arg1, typename... Args>

	void __f(const char* names, Arg1&& arg1, Args&&... args){

		const char* comma = strchr(names + 1, ','); cerr.write(names, comma - names) << " : " << arg1<<" | ";__f(comma+1, args...);

	}

#else

#define debug(...)

#endif

#define FOR(i,a,b) 	for(int i=a;i<b;++i)

#define RFOR(i,a,b) 	for(int i=a;i>=b;--i)

#define ln 		"\n"

#define mp make_pair

#define pb push_back

#define sz(a)	ll(a.size())

#define F first

#define S second

#define all(c)	c.begin(),c.end()

#define rall(c) c.rbegin(), c.rend()

#define trace(c,x) for(auto &x:c)

#define pii pair<ll,ll>

#define init(a, x) memset(a,x,sizeof(a))

typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef	priority_queue<pii,std::vector<pii>,greater<pii> > revpr;



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

// ordered_set X

//K-th smallest

//*X.find_by_order(k-1)

//NO OF ELEMENTS < A

//X.order_of_key(A)

const int L=1e6+7;

ll n, h[L], dp[L];

ll solve(int i)

{

	if(i==n-1)return 0;

	if(i>=n)return INT_MAX;

	if(dp[i] != -1)return dp[i];

	ll &ret = dp[i];

	ret = INT_MAX;

	ret = solve(i+1) + abs(h[i]-h[i+1]);

	ret = min(ret,solve(i+2) + abs(h[i]-h[i+2]));

	return ret;

}

void fff()

{

	cin >> n;

	init(dp, -1);

	FOR(i,0,n)cin >> h[i];

	cout<<solve(0)<<ln;

}

int main()

{

	ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);

	cin.tie(NULL);

	cout.tie(NULL);

	//int t;cin >> t;while(t--)

	fff();

	return 0;

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 9.1701368537585x):
#include<iostream>

#include<stdio.h>

#include<algorithm>

#include<vector>

#include<cstring>

#include<set>

#include<queue>

#include<map>

#include<math.h>



#define FASTREAD      ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);cin.tie(nullptr);

#define ll long long

#define dd double

#define scl(n)        scanf("%lld",&n)

#define scd(n)        scanf("%lf",&n)

#define scc(n)        scanf("%c",&n)

#define scs(n)        scanf("%s",&n)

#define ptl(n)        printf("%lld",n)

#define ptd(n)        printf("%f",n)

#define ptc(n)        printf("%c",n)

#define pts(n)        printf("%s",n)

#define nline         printf("\n")

#define pb            push_back

#define FOR(i,a,b)    for(ll i=a;i<=b;i++)

#define FORr(i,a,b)   for(ll i=a;i>=b;i--)

#define pi            2*acos(0.0)

#define pii           pair<ll,ll>

#define uu            first

#define vv            second



using namespace std;



int main()

{

    ll n,h[100005],dp[100005];

    scl(n);

    FOR(i,1,n)

    {

        scl(h[i]);

    }

    dp[n]=0;

    dp[n-1]=abs(h[n-1]-h[n]);

    FORr(i,n-1,1)

    {

        if(i+2<=n){

        dp[i]=min(dp[i+1]+abs(h[i]-h[i+1]),dp[i+2]+abs(h[i]-h[i+2]));

      //  cout<<i<<" "<<dp[i]<<endl;

        }

    }

    ptl(dp[1]);

    nline;

    return 0;

}