// Slower C++ solution:
#include<set>

#include<map>

#include<cmath>

#include<ctime>

#include<queue>

#include<stack>

#include<cstdio>

#include<string>

#include<vector>

#include<random>

#include<cstdlib>

#include<cstring>

#include<iomanip>

#include<iostream>

#include<algorithm>

#include<unordered_map>

#define endl "\n"

#define fi first

#define se second

#define db double

#define gcd __gcd

#define pb push_back

#define mp make_pair

#define lowbit(x) (x & (-x))

#define PII  pair<int, int> 

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

#define debug(x) cout << #x << " = " << x << endl

#define rep(i, a, b) for(__typeof(b) i = a; i <= (b); i++)

#define Rep(i, a, b) for(__typeof(a) i = a; i >= (b); i--)

#define FAST ios::sync_with_stdio(false); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0)

template<class T> inline T qmin(T a, T b) { return a < b ? a : b; }

template<class T> inline T qmax(T a, T b) { return a > b ? a : b; }

typedef long long ll;

typedef unsigned long long ull;

const db eps = 1e-9;

const db PI = acos(-1);

const int inf = 0x3f3f3f3f;

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

const int maxn = (int)1e5 + 5;//remember to modify it, No RE or MLE

const ll INF = 0x3f3f3f3f3f3f3f3f;

using namespace std;

ll qpow(ll x, ll y) { ll ret = 1; for( ; y; y >>= 1, x = (x * x) % mod) if(y & 1) ret = (ret * x) % mod; return ret; }



inline int read(){

	char ch = getchar();

	int x = 0, f = 1;

	while(ch < '0' || ch > '9'){

		if(ch == '-') f = -1;

		ch = getchar();

	}

	while('0' <= ch && ch <= '9'){

		x = x * 10 + ch - '0';

		ch = getchar();

	}

	return x * f;

}



int n;

int h[maxn], dp[maxn];



int main()

{

	n = read();

	rep(i, 1, n) h[i] = read();

	memset(dp, 0x3f, sizeof dp);

	dp[1] = 0;

	rep(i, 1, n){

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

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

	}

	printf("%d\n", dp[n]);

	return 0;

}

// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.3691204143763487x):
#include <bits/stdc++.h>



#define ll long long

#define ld long double

#define ull unsigned long long

#define endl "\n"

#define MohamedMotaz ios::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);

#define f(a, b, c) for(int a = b; a < c; a++)

using namespace std;

const ll mod = 1e9 + 7;







//ll fact[1000001]; ll inv[1000001];

//ll primes[100007];

//ll arr[1000007];

//ll modPower(ll b, ll p) {

//	if (p == 0)

//		return 1;

//

//	ll halfpow = modPower(b, p / 2);

//	ll toReturn = (halfpow * halfpow) % mod;

//	if (p % 2)

//		toReturn = (toReturn * b) % mod;

//

//	return toReturn;

//}

//

//ll fastPower(ll b, ll p) {

//	if (p == 0)

//		return 1;

//	ll ans = fastPower(b, p / 2);

//	ans = (ans * ans);

//	if (p % 2 != 0)

//		ans = (ans * b);

//	return ans;

//}

//ll GcdRecursive(ll a, ll b) {

//	if (b == 0) return a;

//	return GcdRecursive(b, a % b);

//}

//ll modLCM(ll a, ll b) {

//	ll val = GcdRecursive(a, b);

//	ll tmp = ((a % mod) * (b % mod)) % mod;

//	ll finalVal = ((tmp % mod) * (arr[val] % mod)) % mod;

//	return finalVal;

//

//}

//ll LCM(ll a, ll b) {

//	return (a * b) / GcdRecursive(a, b);

//}

//void move1step(ll& a, ll& b, ll q) { // a and b by reference

//	ll c = a - q * b;

//	a = b;

//	b = c;

//}

//ll GcdIterative(ll a, ll b) {

//	while (b) move1step(a, b, a / b);

//	return a;

//}

//

//void pre(ll n) {

//

//	fact[0] = 1;

//	inv[0] = 1;

//

//	for (ll i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

//		fact[i] = (i * fact[i - 1]) % mod;

//		inv[i] = modPower(fact[i], mod - 2);

//		arr[i] = modPower(i, mod - 2);

//	}

//}

//

//ll npr(ll n, ll r) {

//	return ((fact[n] * inv[n - r]) % mod);

//}

//

//ll ncr(ll n, ll r) {

//	return ((((fact[n] * inv[n - r]) % mod) * inv[r]) % mod);

//}

//

//void sieve(ll val) {

//	memset(primes, 1, sizeof primes);

//	primes[0] = primes[1] = false;

//	for (int i = 2; i <= val; i++) {

//		if (primes[i]) {

//			for (int j = i * i; j <= val; j += i) {

//				primes[j] = 0;

//			}

//		}

//	}

//

//}





const ll N = 1e5 + 7;



ll x;

ll a[N] = {};

ll dp[N] = {};



int main()

{

    MohamedMotaz;

    

    cin >> x;



    f(i, 0, x) cin >> a[i];

    dp[0] = 0;

    dp[1] = abs(a[1] - a[0]);

    f(i, 2, x) dp[i] = min(dp[i - 1] + abs(a[i] - a[i - 1]), dp[i - 2] + abs(a[i] - a[i - 2]));

    cout << dp[x - 1];



   



}