// 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: 1.7940140025877154x):
#include <iostream>

#include <cstdio>

#include <cstring>

#include <algorithm>

#include <cmath>

#include <queue>

#include <stack>

#include <map>

#include <set>

#include <vector>

#define rep(i,x,n) for(int i=x;i<n;i++)

#define repd(i,x,n) for(int i=x;i<=n;i++)

#define pii pair<int,int>

#define pll pair<long long ,long long>

#define gbtb ios::sync_with_stdio(false),cin.tie(0),cout.tie(0)

#define MS0(X) memset((X), 0, sizeof((X)))

#define MSC0(X) memset((X), '\0', sizeof((X)))

#define pb push_back

#define mp make_pair

#define fi first

#define se second

#define gg(x) getInt(&x)

using namespace std;

typedef long long ll;

inline void getInt(int* p);

const int maxn=1000010;

const int inf=0x3f3f3f3f;

/*** TEMPLATE CODE * * STARTS HERE ***/

ll n;

ll dp[maxn];

ll a[maxn];

int main()

{

    gbtb;

    cin>>n;

    repd(i,1,n)

    {

        cin>>a[i];

    }

    dp[1]=0;

    dp[0]=0;

    dp[2]=abs(a[2]-a[1]);

    repd(i,3,n)

    {

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



    }

    cout<<dp[n];

    return 0;

}



inline void getInt(int* p) {

    char ch;

    do {

        ch = getchar();

    } while (ch == ' ' || ch == '\n');

    if (ch == '-') {

        *p = -(getchar() - '0');

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

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

        }

    }

    else {

        *p = ch - '0';

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

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

        }

    }

}