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

using namespace std;



#define mp make_pair

#define pb push_back

#define st first

#define nd second

#define lb lower_bound

#define ub upper_bound



typedef long long ll;

typedef long double ld;

typedef pair<int,int> pi;

typedef pair<ll,ll> pll;

typedef vector<int> vi;

typedef vector<ll> vll;

typedef vector<pi> vpi;

typedef vector<pll> vpll;



const ll oo=1e18;

const int MOD=1000000007;

const int INF=1000000000;

const ld EPS=0.000000001;



int dp[100005],h[100005],n,k=2;



signed main() {

    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(NULL);

    cin.tie(NULL);

    cout.tie(NULL);

    memset(dp,0x3f3f,sizeof dp);

    dp[1]=0;

    h[0]=0;

    cin>>n;

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

    for(int i=2;i<=n;++i) {

        for(int j=1;j<=min(k,i);++j) {

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

        }

    }

    cout<<dp[n];

    return 0;

}


// Faster C++ solution for the same problem (measured speedup: 1.3966799374936614x):
//#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;      

}