// Slower C++ solution:
// Created by ahmed_drawy on 10/09/19.

///dp educational contest atcoder - vjudge

#include <bits/stdc++.h>

#include <string.h>

#pragma clang diagnostic push

#pragma ide diagnostic ignored "OCUnusedMacroInspection"

using namespace std;

#define lp(i,start , end)       for(int i = start ; i<end ; ++i)

#define lllp(i,start , end)       for(ll i = start ; i<end ; ++i)

#define inN(arr ,  n) for(int i = 0 ; i< n ; ++i)  cin>>arr[i];

#define Rlp(i,start , end)      for(int i = start ; i>end ; --i)

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

#define sz(v)                  (int)((v).size())

#define clr(v,d)                memset(v , d , sizeof(v))

#define inf 0x3f3f3f3f

//#define dbg (v)    for(auto it : v)cout<<it<<' ';

typedef long long               ll;

typedef vector<int>             vi;

typedef vector  <ll>            vll;

typedef vector<vector<int> >    adj;

typedef pair<int ,int>          pii;

const double EPS =1e-7;

const int OO = 1e6;

#define endl '\n'

#define cint(c) (int)c -'0';

#define itc(c) (char)c +'A';

bool sortpair( const pair<int , int> & x, const pair<int , int> & y){

    return  x.first != y.first ? x.first < y.first : x.second > y.second ;

}

int dcomp(double x , double y){

    return fabs(x-y) <= EPS? 0: x>y?1:-1;

}



void smile() {

    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(NULL); cout.tie(NULL);

#ifndef ONLINE_JUDGE

//    freopen("/home/tw3/Desktop/Desktop/training/in.txt", "r", stdin);

//    freopen("/home/tw3/Desktop/Desktop/training/out.txt" , "w" , stdout);

#endif

}

#define fastin smile()



int n ;

const int N = 1e5 +3;

ll dp[N];

int h[N];

//ll solve(int indx , int state){

//    if(indx == n-1 )return 0 ;

//    ll &ret = dp[indx  ] [ state];

//    if(~ret )

//        return ret;

//    ret=  INT_MAX;

//    for (int i = 1; i <=2 && i+indx < n ; ++i) {

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

//    }

//    return ret ;

//}

int main() {

    fastin;

    cin >> n;

    inN(h,  n );

    clr(dp , 0);

    for (int j = 1; j <n ; ++j) {

        if(j>=2){

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

        }

        else if(j ==1){

            dp[j] = abs(h[j] - h[j-1])+dp[j-1];

        }

    }

    cout << dp[n-1];

//

//    clr(dp , -1);

//    cout << solve(0, 1)<<endl;

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.7897358508566632x):
//#pragma GCC target("avx2")

//#pragma GCC optimize("O3")

   

//#include <x86intrin.h>

#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;



template<typename T> using ordered_set = tree <T, null_type, less<T>, rb_tree_tag, tree_order_statistics_node_update>;

     

#define F first

#define S second           

#define lb lower_bound               

#define ub upper_bound

#define pb push_back

#define pf push_front    

#define ppb pop_back

#define mp make_pair                                     

#define bpp __builtin_popcountll                                                                                        

#define sqr(x) ((x) * (x)) 

#define al 0x3F3F3F3F

#define sz(x) (int)x.size()

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

#define in insert

#define ppf pop_front

#define endl '\n'

//#define int long long

 

typedef unsigned long long ull;

typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef pair <int, int> pii;

 

const int mod = (int)1e9 + 7;

const int N = (int)3e5 + 123;

const ll inf = (ll)1e18 + 1;



const double pi = acos (-1.0);

const double eps = 1e-7;                  

const int dx[] = {0, 0, 1, 0, -1};

const int dy[] = {0, 1, 0, -1, 0};



int n;

ll h[N];

ll dp[N];



inline void boost () {                    

   ios_base :: sync_with_stdio (NULL);

   cin.tie (NULL), cout.tie (NULL);          

}                                                     



inline void Solve () {

   cin >> n;

   dp[1] = 0;

   for (int i = 1; i <= n; i ++) cin >> h[i];

   for (int i = 2; i <= n; i ++) dp[i] = inf;

   for (int i = 1; i <= n; i ++) {

      if (i + 1 <= n) dp[i + 1] = min (dp[i + 1], dp[i] + abs (h[i] - h[i + 1]));

      if (i + 2 <= n) dp[i + 2] = min (dp[i + 2], dp[i] + abs (h[i] - h[i + 2]));

   }

   cout << dp[n];

}



main () {                                       

// freopen (".in", "r", stdin);    

// freopen (".out", "w", stdout);              

   boost ();

   int tt = 1;

   //cin >> tt;   

   while (tt --) {

      Solve ();

   }                                               

   return 0;      

}