// 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: 1.7899705252047284x):
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

#include<iostream>

#include<functional>

#include <bitset>

#include<algorithm>

#include<fstream>

#include<string>

#include <cstring>

#include<stdio.h>

#include<iomanip>

#include<sstream>

#include<cmath>

#include<vector>

#include<assert.h>

#include<queue>

#include<deque>

#include<stack>

#include<set>

#include<map>

// never lose hope ..

typedef unsigned long long ull;

typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

#define eps 1e-8

using namespace std;

double const  PI = 3.141592653;

const int OO = 1000000000 + 9;



void fast() {

	ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);

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

}





int main()

{

	fast();



	int n;

	cin >> n;

	vector<int>v(n + 1, 0), dp(n + 1, OO);

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

		cin >> v[i];

	}

	dp[1] = 0;

	dp[2] = dp[1] + abs(v[1] - v[2]);

	for (int i = 3;i <= n;i++) {

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

	}

	cout << dp[n];





	return 0;

}